Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses
by justusthane on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:44AM
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You can also append “+whatever” to the username part of your gmail address and filter it that way.
E.g. [email protected]
Unfortunately some services won’t accept that as a valid address.
I use this all the time, everywhere I can.
The worst example of "we know what are valid email addresses better than anyone" case was when adidas.com decided that they'd redesign their registration flow and in the process disabled logins with "invalid" email addresses when they previously had accepted registrations and logins with email addresses tagged with + for years. That was genius.
I wrote about this issue on my blog. Basically just using email aliases on a custom domain to enable per-provider filtering, and deletion of the alias if they ignore unsubscribe requests or get hacked. https://jonpurdy.com/2020/06/using-email-aliasing-to-detect-...
Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses
by soulofmischief on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:57AM
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And most email scrapers / aggregators these days also ignore the + and whatever comes after.
Others strip it too
Re:Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses
by davidbarker on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:34AM
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I've done this — I have a filter to move any email I receive without a dot into a "Not For Me" folder, which I periodically go through and usually send a canned response back about how they probably have the wrong person.
You can also automate this part, perhaps to reply with "You probably have the wrong person, but if it is actually for me I'll get back to you shortly".
Hope that helps, as someone with a common name I sympathize enormously.