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>Select this type to use your email provider's sub-addressing (aka "plus addressing" or "aliasing") Anyone knows which providers do this? >e.g. alice+gsd4aqqe
by lvass 4y ago
>Select this type to use your email provider's sub-addressing (aka "plus addressing" or "aliasing")
Anyone knows which providers do this?
>e.g. alice+gsd4aqqe@bitwarden.com)
If this pattern becomes popular enough, it won't take long until services strip out the + part entirely.
- CGamesPlay 4y ago> If this pattern becomes popular enough, it won't take long until services strip out the + part entirely. Why would they do that? Specifically to spam more discreetly? But it's trivial to auto-filter all non-plus addresses to the trash.
- calmoo 4y agoGmail supports it.
- voxic11 4y agogmail has always supported this and its pretty popular already.
- michaelhoffman 4y agoWorse, I have used services where they changed the email validation code years after setting up my account and then I could no longer log in because my email address had a + in it. So I don't do this anymore. Sneakemail, which lets you do it with hyphens, works pretty well, though.
- dgellow 4y agoIt’s already the case on a lot of websites, I had issues using +plus addresses to register accounts since at least a decade.
- Hamcha 4y agoI've been using catch-all addresses for a decade (with Google Apps.. rip) and I doubt that will ever get counter-measured. It's been really nice to catch those few cases where a service clearly sold my email to advertiser.
- toyg 4y agoSadly, data handlers have become savvy to this and already strip the address part after + (a trivial effort) before they resell mailing lists.
- batch12 4y agoIf you catch all then you don't need the + anymore, right?
- yencabulator 4y agoAlso, the + breaks so, so many sites. I've switched to a custom domain and from.<sitename>.<random>@
- dempedempe 4y agoFWIW, the OP was talking about subaddressing, not catch-all addresses.
- bsilvereagle 4y agoMany services already do not accept email addresses with “+” in them. In those cases it’s usually possible to generate a unique email using extra periods instead: https://frdmtoplay.com/finite-gmail-accounts/ https://frdmtoplay.com/finite-gmail-accounts/
- dempedempe 4y agoWell, subaddressing is actually part of an RFC [1], so no, they won't. 1: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5233 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5233
- karmanyaahm 4y agoI don't think people who make money from selling email addresses care about RFCs
- DistractionRect 4y agoLowes and plenty of other sites already forbid plus addressing.
- scintill76 4y agoNOTE: Because the encoding of detailed addresses are site and/or implementation specific `+` or any other encoding is not part of an RFC, and I don't think the existence of subaddressing is either.
- karmanyaahm 4y agoI use me.<random>@mydomain.com (which has wildcard with prefix), no one blocks dots typically.
- tlavoie 4y agoIndeed, you can use other characters as well. I've got the underscore '_' on mine, and use it for all my random-signup emails. It's great, once in a blue moon you find one that leaks your ID or spams you, and I can then immediately bin that variant.