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The process for sending email /from/ a + address is tricky. First -- in GMail at least -- you have to explicitly set up a + account as being in your list of "f

The process for sending email /from/ a + address is tricky. First -- in GMail at least -- you have to explicitly set up a + account as being in your list of "from" accounts and then you have to remember to use it every time you reply! Not to mention forgetting the email I gave them when resetting passwords sucks, too. "Was that foo+hn or foo+ycombinator or foo+ycombinator.com or foo+hackernews or... hm... uhhh..." (You need a centralized password manager, in other words.) I've had several issues where I've replied and sending from the base-address means the conversation goes awry ("We don't recognize this email address"), or at best I still expose the base address because I only remember to reply using the laboriously-created-from-plus address about a fourth of the time.

paledot 6y ago
Good point, I've been meaning to make this a feature request in ProtonMail.
donmcronald 6y ago
You can't even send from a normal alias in Office 365, so I'd be shocked if you'll be able to send from these '+' aliases.
- inanutshellus 6y ago
  Wow, that sucks. I honestly don't see how that would work. Like, how would you unsubscribe to a mailing list? Most these days let you click a link rather than reply with "unsubscribe" but still... I've had multiple occasions where contact /to/ a business needed to come from the email address I used to sign up with their service (automatic correlation to users I guess). One particular exchange was particularly painful. Every email I sent was, I assume, routed to a new customer queue. Every email that I sent from my non-+ alias was delayed by days and then dealt with by an unhelpful "we don't recognize this email address". It was very painful and it was all because I used a + alias as my supplied email address but kept forgetting to use it as my 'from' address. Had I not had the ability to set it as my 'from' I'd probably have stopped using + aliases entirely.

paledot 6y ago

Good point, I've been meaning to make this a feature request in ProtonMail.

donmcronald 6y ago

You can't even send from a normal alias in Office 365, so I'd be shocked if you'll be able to send from these '+' aliases.

inanutshellus 6y ago
Wow, that sucks. I honestly don't see how that would work. Like, how would you unsubscribe to a mailing list? Most these days let you click a link rather than reply with "unsubscribe" but still... I've had multiple occasions where contact /to/ a business needed to come from the email address I used to sign up with their service (automatic correlation to users I guess). One particular exchange was particularly painful. Every email I sent was, I assume, routed to a new customer queue. Every email that I sent from my non-+ alias was delayed by days and then dealt with by an unhelpful "we don't recognize this email address". It was very painful and it was all because I used a + alias as my supplied email address but kept forgetting to use it as my 'from' address. Had I not had the ability to set it as my 'from' I'd probably have stopped using + aliases entirely.