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email idea: tags as part of your email address. for generic mail you use your regular email address me@host.com commerical stuff or whatever gets sent there. y
by nazgulnarsil 19y ago
email idea:
tags as part of your email address. for generic mail you use your regular email address me@host.com
commerical stuff or whatever gets sent there.
your folders become inboxes for emails tagged with that folders name
me@host.com/friends automatically gets routed to your friends inbox.
you could make it so that anyone can make their own tags then give them out to subsets of their freinds as needed.
example
me@host.com/coworkers
me@host.com/spam (for when you use your email to sign up for stuff online)
that way lower priority folders only have to be checked when you know something is coming to them. and as spammers catch onto this you just make your tags less obvious.
- aneesh 19y agoThis already exists - you can accomplish this with a plus sign in your address. If your address is bill@gates.com, then bill+anything@gates.com will be routed to you (the plus sign is critical). So you can use bill+work@gates.com, bill+foundation@gates.com, etc, and set up filters based on the address the mail was sent to. Voila!
- staticshock 19y agoi know for a fact this works in gmail, since they advertised it, but i didn't know this was standard
- alex_c 19y agoAFAIK, it is part of the email standard, but not actually supported by all providers.
- nazgulnarsil 19y agohow come no one uses this? thanks for the info.