The most useful under-used feature of email

Re:The most useful under-used feature of email by joezydeco on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @04:53PM (#10659131)

"If you sign up for some website that requires an email address (especially if they might spam), using a + alias lets you create a filter for the stuff they send"

It's a great idea...but I'm encountering more and more sites that reject your email address outright if a + is in there anywhere.

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Re:The most useful under-used feature of email by breakingcups on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @02:28PM (#10665209)

If this happens to you, you can also use the period sign with GMail. So [email protected] also receives email addressed to [email protected] [email protected], [email protected], etc.

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Re:The most useful under-used feature of email by ses4j on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @05:15PM (#10659293)

Do you think they're intentionally blacklisting the +, or are they just writing sloppy validation/regexes that aren't up to the spec?

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Re:The most useful under-used feature of email by joezydeco on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @05:31PM (#10659389)

Hard to say.

I've encountered it on some very large and famous websites, so I'm thinking it's not always the fault of a bad regex.

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