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I really wish I could move my personal email over to gmail -- I've run my own local email server for 30 years, and tbh I just don't really care to do that anymo

I really wish I could move my personal email over to gmail -- I've run my own local email server for 30 years, and tbh I just don't really care to do that anymore. But I'm stuck -- I exclusively use 'tagged' email addresses when giving anyone my email address, so every incoming message is addressed to "myusername-sometag@domain"... and gmail, of course, uses a + instead of a - for doing that kind of tagging. So if I tried to migrate hosts, literally none of my incoming email would arrive anymore. Sucks that a decision I made before gmail even existed now restrains me so much. :/

akovaski 2y ago
Several email providers provide catch-all/wildcard functionality which can handle arbitrary tagging. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Catch-all-wildcard-aliases https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca... https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community/topic/receive-only-wildcard-aliases https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community/topic/receive-only... https://support.google.com/a/answer/12943537?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/12943537?hl=en
noAnswer 2y ago
Even the longest journey begins with one step. I have a similar mail address pattern (ebay-534389@foo etc.) When I started 7 years ago. I opened my password safe and changed one account after another. If the old account received something I overlooked and I was still interested in it, I changed this address too. A year later and the old address receives nothing anymore. Nothings stops me or you from changing it back. Update: And yes, there are a million providers that provide a catch-all mechanism. Even some domain registrars provide catch-all forwarding.
bsder 2y ago
I think Fastmail can deal with this. I don't know about using "-"(dash), specifically, though ... And never use "+" as a separator. There are zillions of shitty regex email address "validators" that won't take it even though gmail uses it.

akovaski 2y ago

Several email providers provide catch-all/wildcard functionality which can handle arbitrary tagging. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Catch-all-wildcard-aliases https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca... https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community/topic/receive-only-wildcard-aliases https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/community/topic/receive-only... https://support.google.com/a/answer/12943537?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/12943537?hl=en

noAnswer 2y ago

Even the longest journey begins with one step. I have a similar mail address pattern (ebay-534389@foo etc.) When I started 7 years ago. I opened my password safe and changed one account after another. If the old account received something I overlooked and I was still interested in it, I changed this address too. A year later and the old address receives nothing anymore. Nothings stops me or you from changing it back. Update: And yes, there are a million providers that provide a catch-all mechanism. Even some domain registrars provide catch-all forwarding.

bsder 2y ago

I think Fastmail can deal with this. I don't know about using "-"(dash), specifically, though ... And never use "+" as a separator. There are zillions of shitty regex email address "validators" that won't take it even though gmail uses it.