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I wish I could do something as sophisticated as this with GSuite. I did manage to get something similar in spirit but waaay simpler using GSuite filtering+rou

by tmacam 8y ago

I wish I could do something as sophisticated as this with GSuite. I did manage to get something similar in spirit but waaay simpler using GSuite filtering+routing and regexes.

goddva 8y ago
But you can, sort of. If your GSuite mail is user@domain.com, you could use user+facebook@domain.com. Then you can create what ever filtering you want to GSuite. The problem I have, is to remember what I used for each service :/ . So I really liked the idea of `whichmail`.
- techntoke 8y ago
  A lot of services won't accept an email with a plus sign as a valid email address. Part of the issue is how many companies want an email address to sign up for something. It is much easier to track your accounts using a password management application, as opposed to giving everyone your email address and phone number.
  - pstch 8y ago
    I have even seen emails rejected when using a simple dash, or because it was not hosted by a well-known mail service provider, and even because "your email should be of the form <name>.<surname>@<website>" (yes, with a dot, ironically). At that point I gave up, and I use a single Gmail account for all the services that I don't use very frequently (also because it's not always easy to send mail from self-hosted mailservers, some destinations simply refuse any mail that is not from Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail).
- tmacam 8y ago
  As the other comments mention, I avoid the + sign on a e-mail - way too many systems (from form validators to other systems) freak out with dashes, dots and plus signs in e-mails. The format I have settled is somewhat like prefixFixedSizeSuffix@domain, both prefix and suffix being plain alphanumeric characters. Yes, the suffix is rather dumb (it could be a smarter like a hash when I used procmail) but still better than a catchall with no filtering. I could have opted to a whitelist. Not sure how automatable GSuite services are (I guess a bit) but this simple regex allows me to just come up with email address on demand with with minimal fuzz.

by tmacam 8y ago

I wish I could do something as sophisticated as this with GSuite. I did manage to get something similar in spirit but waaay simpler using GSuite filtering+routing and regexes.

goddva 8y ago

But you can, sort of. If your GSuite mail is user@domain.com, you could use user+facebook@domain.com. Then you can create what ever filtering you want to GSuite. The problem I have, is to remember what I used for each service :/ . So I really liked the idea of `whichmail`.

techntoke 8y ago
A lot of services won't accept an email with a plus sign as a valid email address. Part of the issue is how many companies want an email address to sign up for something. It is much easier to track your accounts using a password management application, as opposed to giving everyone your email address and phone number.
- pstch 8y ago
  I have even seen emails rejected when using a simple dash, or because it was not hosted by a well-known mail service provider, and even because "your email should be of the form <name>.<surname>@<website>" (yes, with a dot, ironically). At that point I gave up, and I use a single Gmail account for all the services that I don't use very frequently (also because it's not always easy to send mail from self-hosted mailservers, some destinations simply refuse any mail that is not from Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail).
tmacam 8y ago
As the other comments mention, I avoid the + sign on a e-mail - way too many systems (from form validators to other systems) freak out with dashes, dots and plus signs in e-mails. The format I have settled is somewhat like prefixFixedSizeSuffix@domain, both prefix and suffix being plain alphanumeric characters. Yes, the suffix is rather dumb (it could be a smarter like a hash when I used procmail) but still better than a catchall with no filtering. I could have opted to a whitelist. Not sure how automatable GSuite services are (I guess a bit) but this simple regex allows me to just come up with email address on demand with with minimal fuzz.