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Words great, until a page rejects email with a '+' in it.

• 6510 2y ago
  dots are ignored, can filter by john.doe@gmail.com not sure about capital letters
• hks0 2y ago
  Not everyone's cup of tea, but quite nice if one can afford it: I have my personal domain and a catch-all inbox. So if I want to register at acme-co.xyz I will just use acmecoxyz@my-domain.tld Maybe I should start using random words though? Wonder if someone will go bananas seeing their brand's name on my domain.
  • kroltan 2y ago
    Yeah, I've had to explain that a couple times already, usually when dealing with customer support or in-person registrations. And a "malicious" actor can get away with pretending to be another company by spoofing the username if they know your domain works like that. I don't think this has reached spammers' repertoire yet, but I wouldn't be surprised. Eventually I'd like to have a way of generating random email addresses that accept mail on demand, and put everything else in quaraintine automatically.
• AshamedCaptain 2y ago
  Or just knows about this Gmail trick (it's been 20 years already) and sends spam to your real mailbox. Actually, I am surprised _any_ spammy website these days would even honor the part after the +, and not just directly send to the real mailbox name.
  • thechao 2y ago
    I used to require a "+..." on all emails. Any email that didn't have the "+..." was sent to Spam automagically. My family were whitelisted. I gave up, because too many websites (early on) refused to take the "+..." marker, so I ended up losing too much to Spam. It's easier to just let Google sort it out.
  • gnopgnip 2y ago
    It's part of RFC 5233 Sieve Email Filtering: Subaddress Extension
  • aorth 2y ago
    Good resource on this trick from 2010. It's not Gmail specific. https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addresses.html https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-a...