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Aside from being self-hosted how does this differ from +suffix Gmail addresses?
by vernie 4y ago
Aside from being self-hosted how does this differ from +suffix Gmail addresses?
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- JZL003 4y agoAlso, not as granular, but instead of the + suffix, add a dot in a weird place. So n.ame@gmail.com or nam.e@gmail.com . Many SMTP servers respect periods as differentiating emails, so services can't delete them. It doesn't help you stop spam, but you can add a gmail filter that n.ame@gmail.com is put in a separate label. And it's very fast to type, easy for non tech-y people
- MrRiddle 4y agoIt’s trivial to figure out main gmail address?
- cubesnooper 4y agoIt’s almost as trivial with this format too, at least to guess what address is used for other services, though it has a strong advantage over using ‘+’ in GMail in that nothing will try this automatically. It’s hard to believe anyone would intentionally try to guess a different service’s email to spam to it, but even so in my setup I prefer to eliminate this possibility completely by adding a random number to the service name: experian12322@example.com, and so on, with no catchall for invalid addresses. So far the most spam I’ve gotten has been to the address I used for Amazon (probably leaked by a third‐party seller there).
- binwiederhier 4y ago> It’s almost as trivial with this format too I mean you can pick any format you want before the "@", but yeah my format is trivial. Nobody has tried to do it automatically yet though, as far as I can tell.
- SalimoS 4y agoI remember Starzplay didn’t accept the + in my email when I tried it (technically I signed up but couldn’t login anymore )
- binwiederhier 4y agoHonestly, probably not a whole lot. Though I had originally made this because with the "+" approach, you can easily get the original address by simply removing everything after the "+", while with mine you cannot. On top of that, sometimes "+" does not work in services that do "strict email validation".
- webmobdev 4y agoSome services do not accept email with a "+" in it.
- PrettyPastry 4y agoSome services even accept it to create an account, but not to log in. One never let me change my email or password when I used the +.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoPostfix allows defining any character as a VERP separator. OP also could have just used a regex in the virtual file.
- heldergg 4y agoPlus addressing is not unique to gmail nor it was invented by google. For example, to enable plus addressing in postfix is only a matter of defining: recipient_delimiter = +