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Some spammish senders will strip the + because they know people use it to segregate their mail into different buckets and they don't want this.
by not2b 5y ago
Some spammish senders will strip the + because they know people use it to segregate their mail into different buckets and they don't want this.
- lahvak 5y agoWhich means their email will go straight into the trash.
- B1FF_PSUVM 5y agoAnd some clueless bigcorps just choke on email addresses with +
- yosito 5y agoWith many email services, you can set up unlimited aliases for your own domain. I do this with Fastmail. No need for the +
- orev 5y agoDoes this really need to be said in 2022? The advent of plus addressing was more or less driven because techies were already able to make custom addresses for their domain, and the + could be a standard thing that non-techies could use with their basic email account without needing to reconfigure things on the backend, or use a messy catch-all account.
- latexr 5y ago> Does this really need to be said in 2022? Something you have known for years may be new to someone else. Relevant XCKD: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- greenyoda 5y agoYou don't even need to provide your own domain - Fastmail gives you a subdomain for free. For example, if your Fastmail address is myname@fastmail.com, then any_address@myname.fastmail.com will get to you.