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According to the RFC ‘+’ is a valid character and tagged addresses (which aren’t mentioned) represent unique users (so removing the marker could result in the e

by swiley 7y ago

According to the RFC ‘+’ is a valid character and tagged addresses (which aren’t mentioned) represent unique users (so removing the marker could result in the email not being delivered at all.) IME: I’ve never had anyone remove it (although some don’t accept it and others will have bugs that result in an unusable account if you register with it.) I used one with the company I most recently interviewed at (they used a third party service for the HR site and I’ve had trouble with sites like that selling my email address which is just so enraging honestly.) Every. Single. Time. I logged in to fill out a form after getting hired I had to call HR and have them reset my account because of some weird bug.

petercooper 7y ago
According to the RFC ‘+’ is a valid character and tagged addresses (which aren’t mentioned) represent unique users (so removing the marker could result in the email not being delivered at all.) Though similarly, email usernames ('local part') are case sensitive but I've never encountered a mail server where this was the case. I imagine if a nefarious party stripped the markers, they'd lose the tiniest percentage of their audience that way. (Aside: Your own approach to using + is quite clever as it's the total opposite to most users, so you'll see who pulls this trick ;-))