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I get annoyed when forms can't process a '+' in my address.
by notthemessiah 6y ago
I get annoyed when forms can't process a '+' in my address.
- NullPrefix 6y agoNot processing '+' is a way for spammers to self identify.
- tsbinz 6y agoIf it was about being able to spam, they'd just silently strip the + part. I think it's just ignorance ... in my own mailserver I have a custom separator that usually doesn't trip validation functions.
- billme 6y agoThis assumes the “+” is not a trick to see if they are stripping the “+” from the username of the email address; which then is automatically flagged as SPAM. Of course this assumes you’re creating a new email per contact, not just using a feature that was never intended as a anti-spam tool.
- jrockway 6y agoI used - in the qmail days and never had any problems. The + causes enough problems that I've basically stopped using it. People seem to spam me, but gmail is pretty good at filtering all that stuff into the "Promotions" folder, which is nice.
- EarthIsHome 6y agoCan you go into a little more detail or provide a pseudo example? I'm confused at how this allows spammers to self-identity.
- joncrane 6y agoThis is intentional. It's because the people who own the site know the gmail <realemail>+thisisspam@gmail.com trick and they prevent people using that trick.
- yeezyseezy 6y agoI've fixed this issue at a large company, and it was not intentional, but poorly written regex
- RL_Quine 6y agoYou can deal with this by using subdomain tags on some providers. user@tag.domain.com rather than user+tag@domain.com.
- gumby 6y agoI have only a handful of addresses on my machine so implemented the letter ‘f’ as the selector (none of the usernames nor various full name aliases have that letter in them). I really doubt any spammer could screen that out :-)