Just as a side note: This is referred to as “subaddressing” (or 
plus-addressing, detailed addressing), described in RFC5233: 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233

Might help ;)

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Johan

On 9 Mar 2016, at 23:11, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 9 Mar 2016, at 17:07, Kee Hinckley wrote:
>
>> I'm using the same settings that I've always used in MailMate to allow 
>> sending from an alternate address (in this case [email protected]) but 
>> now I'm using gmail as a sender and the mailing list is rejecting my email 
>> as not being from a legit address (I just subscribed without the + so I 
>> could send this). My guess is gmail is doing something different in the 
>> handling, but does anyone know what, or how to get around it?
>
> If I remember correctly then Gmail allows you to receive emails to “+” 
> variants of your email address, but you cannot use them for sending emails. I 
> have no idea why (and I might not remember it correctly).
>
> -- 
> Benny
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