The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004)

Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by todd3834 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:39PM (#23182705)

I do this as well using a not so well know trick that exists on most major email providers including gmail and iCloud: [email protected]. Those emails will arrive at [email protected]

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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by therein on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:46PM (#23182827)

That is unless the spammer was clever to do the following:

  providersWithSuffixSupport = ["icloud.com", "gmail.com", "googlemail.com", ...];
  if email.endsWithAnyOf(providersWithSuffixSupport) {
    email = email.trimBetweenFirstOccurrence("+", "@");
  }

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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by ryantgtg on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:31PM (#23183442)

I have a site with users, and while we have no interest in selling their addresses, it still strikes me as futile when people add "+mysite" to their address. It would take me 2 seconds in excel to zap all those appendages.

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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by tastroder on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:58PM (#23183817)

Not everybody uses the scheme for some futile security purpose, some sites are just a bit annoying with their outgoing addresses with their non-nefarious communication and the + scheme can be a nice way for rules.

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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by ryantgtg on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:19PM (#23184092)

I hadn't thought of that case. I've always had good luck simple simple rules like, "if @theirsite.com then move to folder".

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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by layoutIfNeeded on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:45PM (#23182810)

This won't help you tracking down which service leaked your e-mail address, because the first thing spammers do is trimming the +suffix.

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Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004) by quotz on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:36PM (#23183524)

How did you do this?

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