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IMHO confirms this incident the value of having an individual mail address for each site, service etc. Gmail has allowed for such individual mail addresses for
by chmars 14y ago
IMHO confirms this incident the value of having an individual mail address for each site, service etc.
Gmail has allowed for such individual mail addresses for years:
username+loremipsum@gmail.com
Example:
johndoe+dropboxcom@gmail.com
Mails addressed to johndoe+dropboxcom@gmail.com will be delivered to johndoe@gmail.com. They are easy to identify, filter etc.
- AkThhhpppt 14y agoThat's not just GMail, that's all compliant email handlers; it's part of the RFC. Unfortunately, it's not guaranteed that the site you're signing up to can handle that address format - Facebook doesn't...
- chmars 14y agoThanks, I had no idea of this RFC part.
- mitchellhislop 14y agoThe new outlook.com also does not respect the RFC in this case, which I thought was especially funny.
- mgurlitz 14y agoWhile the RFC mandates the ability to send and receive email from user+detail@example.org it doesn't require that it go to user@example.org. It's an extension to the email standard, and you could have labels in another form if you wanted to, e.g. inbox0-user@example.org (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233)
- nollidge 14y agoRight, but GMail not only allows +, it treats it special. That's not in the RFC, as far as I can tell.