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Another fun feature with Gmail is that you can add arbitrary text to the end of your email addresses. This can be helpful if you're interested in tracking the
by dgzl 8y ago
Another fun feature with Gmail is that you can add arbitrary text to the end of your email addresses.
This can be helpful if you're interested in tracking the origins of where your received emails come from. For instance, if you sign up your address at a website and start recieving sketchy emails with a destination for myemail+thatwebsite[at]gmail, you can easily find out where the leakage occurred.
- setr 8y agoAren’t both of those things relatively standard for email in general
- callahad 8y agoPlus-based subaddresses are relatively common (sendmail supports them, Sieve has RFC 5233, etc), but dot-insensitivity is/was unique to gmail as far as I'm aware.
- aaaaaaaaaab 8y agoUnless the spammer knows about this too and trims any +suffixes from the addresses.
- brianpgordon 8y agoFastMail thought of this and lets you use subdomains instead. So user@tag.domain gets delivered to your mailbox as user+tag@domain.
- xte 8y agoHem it's not a GMail specific feature but a common one (sub-addressing/plus addressing, RFC 5233) that skip inbox and drop messages in the +$name/tag dir/label... The GMail specific feature is adding dots as you want in your mail localpart so (foobar, f.oo.bar, f.o.o.b.a.r etc @gmail are the very same mailbox).
- kposehn 8y agoOk, that I did not know. Thanks!