I feel with you

Posted Sep 2, 2024 9:56 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: I feel with you by yeltsin
Parent article: A SpamAssassin surprise

I'm generally happy that most places seem to have caught on to the idea that foo+bar@example.com is, in fact, a valid e-mail address in spite of the “+”. This used to be a major annoyance a few years ago.

I feel with you

Posted Sep 3, 2024 0:21 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (2 responses)

Gmail did that. In Gmail everything after + is ignored so you may used JoeAverage+shopping@gmail.com on one web site and JoeAverage+work@gmail.com on some other web site (and can use filters to label them differently on the receiving site).

Gmail is large enough and common enough to force developers to accept these.

I'm not sure smaller mail providers can do that.

I feel with you

Posted Sep 3, 2024 7:41 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

> Gmail is large enough and common enough to force developers to accept these.

That "+" thing is in the original RFC. Gmail didn't force others to accept it - they would have *been* forced to accept it.

Cheers,
Wol

I feel with you

Posted Sep 3, 2024 14:08 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Whenever thinks worked that way? Things like !, /, or even @ are in the original RFC, too. Yet web sites don't support them (or, at least, rarely do).

Why do you think + is an exception?