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I've seen places that won't allow a "+" saying it's an invalid character.

by bb88 1y ago

1oooqooq 1y ago
ah! the fathers of slop vibe code: copy paste coders. the "validate email input regex" that mistakenly rejects plus sign have been copy pasted for so long it might live on forever.
- SchemaLoad 1y ago
  Could be by design. They want you using your main gmail address and not signing up multiple times.
  - 1oooqooq 1y ago
    you'd think if that was the only thing broken on that copy-pasted-regex.
rlpb 1y ago
Microsoft, for example, for a Windows login account does this.
Evidlo 1y ago
I use PurelyMail to get email redirection with wildcard support. Costs $4/year when I use it with Gmail for the actual storage. I use an underscore so my addresses look like evidlo_[placholder]@example.com
- gblargg 1y ago
  So they don't charge for emails if they are forwarded? Do you have a link where they describe underscore aliases?
  - Evidlo 1y ago
    I use their "Advanced" billing mode which is usage-based and ended up cheaper than the fixed-price "Simple" mode. This was my bill for last month (received ~300 emails): Total: $0.35 Storage (GB/month): 0.00 ($0.00) Emails sent to non-Purelymail accounts: 19 ($0.00) Emails sent: 19 ($0.00) Emails sent (GB): 0.00 ($0.00) Yearly account fee (days): 30 ($0.33) Shared-domain user fees: $0.02 They don't actually support wildcards, but there's a matching pattern "Any address starting with" for which I just entered "evidlo". https://purelymail.com/docs/routing https://purelymail.com/docs/routing
    - rendx 1y ago
      No need for a filter rule apparently! https://purelymail.com/docs/features https://purelymail.com/docs/features "Subaddressing allows you to tag the email addresses you give out. […] This also works with example_tagged@purelymail.com (in fact, everything after the first symbol- anything not a letter- in an address is ignored for routing) […]"

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I've seen places that won't allow a "+" saying it's an invalid character.

by bb88 1y ago

I've seen places that won't allow a "+" saying it's an invalid character.

1oooqooq 1y ago
ah! the fathers of slop vibe code: copy paste coders. the "validate email input regex" that mistakenly rejects plus sign have been copy pasted for so long it might live on forever.
- SchemaLoad 1y ago
  Could be by design. They want you using your main gmail address and not signing up multiple times.
  - 1oooqooq 1y ago
    you'd think if that was the only thing broken on that copy-pasted-regex.
rlpb 1y ago
Microsoft, for example, for a Windows login account does this.
Evidlo 1y ago
I use PurelyMail to get email redirection with wildcard support. Costs $4/year when I use it with Gmail for the actual storage. I use an underscore so my addresses look like evidlo_[placholder]@example.com
- gblargg 1y ago
  So they don't charge for emails if they are forwarded? Do you have a link where they describe underscore aliases?
  - Evidlo 1y ago
    I use their "Advanced" billing mode which is usage-based and ended up cheaper than the fixed-price "Simple" mode. This was my bill for last month (received ~300 emails): Total: $0.35 Storage (GB/month): 0.00 ($0.00) Emails sent to non-Purelymail accounts: 19 ($0.00) Emails sent: 19 ($0.00) Emails sent (GB): 0.00 ($0.00) Yearly account fee (days): 30 ($0.33) Shared-domain user fees: $0.02 They don't actually support wildcards, but there's a matching pattern "Any address starting with" for which I just entered "evidlo". https://purelymail.com/docs/routing https://purelymail.com/docs/routing
    - rendx 1y ago
      No need for a filter rule apparently! https://purelymail.com/docs/features https://purelymail.com/docs/features "Subaddressing allows you to tag the email addresses you give out. […] This also works with example_tagged@purelymail.com (in fact, everything after the first symbol- anything not a letter- in an address is ignored for routing) […]"