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Not a gmail invention perhaps, but also not per RFC. That some use it to mean something special is not in the RFC. Actually, a significant number of SMTP server
by sethammons 2y ago
Not a gmail invention perhaps, but also not per RFC. That some use it to mean something special is not in the RFC. Actually, a significant number of SMTP servers don't even implement the required parts of the related RFCs, let alone fancy things like plus handling.
- Sami_Lehtinen 2y agoAgreed, most of email servers and services are broken per RFC. I've blogged about this over and over again.
- em-bee 2y agoit is not in the SMTP RFC because it is a purely local matter that does not affect email routing. there are a number of servers that support it. wikipedia lists some if them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Sub-addressing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Sub-addressing