Re:Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!
by Z7YCx5ieof4Std on Thursday August 15, 2024 @04:19AM
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When you can't use a + use a .
[email protected] is [email protected] is [email protected] is [email protected] etc
Re:Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!
by alexriddle on Thursday August 15, 2024 @04:28AM
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This works for some providers (Google) but definitely isn't universal - MS/Outlook doesn't support it for example
Re:Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!
by andrewSC on Thursday August 15, 2024 @06:25AM
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I literally setup an alias last week in O365 Outlook using the pattern [email protected]? I’ve been able to receive and send using the alias as well. Maybe this is a new feature/behavior?
Re:Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!
by alexriddle on Thursday August 15, 2024 @07:05AM
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I may have misunderstood the parent comment - with gmail, you can add dots anywhere in the mailbox and it all goes to the same place (standard gmail, not workspace)
e.g [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] all are the same user and will go into their mailbox (which I have used to avoid the + stripping that some sites do)
[email protected] and [email protected] are two distinct users.
Obviously if you control the domain or use a provider who supports it you can add an alias with punctuation but then you might as well just use e.g [email protected] to track the email source.
Re:Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!
by gloriousternary on Thursday August 15, 2024 @12:07PM
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Since I run my own email server, I get around some of those issues by configuring Postfix's recipient_delimiter to use . rather than +. I've never had a site treat [email protected] as anything other than a normal email address. It certainly doesn't justify the effort I've spent dealing with deliverability issues, but it's a nice perk.
It works 95% of the time, but be aware that it sometimes doesn't:
- Some webpages refuse addresses with a + in it.
- I’ve had at least one instance where I lost an important email because I could register and receive emails from them, but one of their internal databases silently failed on my address. (I lost the proofs for a paper accepted in a journal, and it took some time to figure out what was going on…)
- There was at least one web page that was smart enough to just remove the +… from my address after I registered.
- Some webpages require you to be able to send emails to them from the exact address you sign up with (including the +…)
Overall I’ve been happy with the feature since it makes e-mail sorting easier, and you can just redirect a given subaddress to spam if they leak it, and it’s less effort than creating a “real” email alias per page. Just keep in mind that there are many ways it can fail, so you might not want to use it for anything that is actually important.