2026-01-26 22:31 UTC
@ericphelps@mastodon.social
That is a delightfully over-engineered solution and it definitely works well. Tagged addresses are going to be inferior but much simpler. Also spammers would be looking for tagged addresses.
As to how, just add +string to the username of a Gmail address. It'll go to your main box. Easy to filter if needed.
Many email servers support that syntax. Others like qmail use -string.
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@thetruejona@mastodon.social 2026-02-09 18:14
@rbos@mastodon.novylen.net @ericphelps@mastodon.social Interesting: I could have sworn that once upon a time, if there was a mailbox name corresponding to the part after the +, Google would deliver mail into that mailbox. Experiment says no. Maybe I'm confusing it with email setups I tended to in my sysadmin days, where I made sure that worked.