On 6/19/18 3:20 PM, Steve Atkins wrote:
On Jun 19, 2018, at 8:10 PM, Brandon Long via mailop <[email protected]> wrote:
They used to use qmail which uses - instead of the more common + for multiple
addresses, wonder if this is a side effect of the forwarding for ymail.com
using qmail
Likely. Though at one point it wasn't unusual to configure the separator to be - instead of +
because of all the web forms that didn't handle escaping properly and would record
"[email protected]" as "steve [email protected]".
Cheers,
Steve
I have an address with pobox.com which allows using a +. There are many
considerations for both the - as well as the + but in my opinion it
would be much better to use -. I'm always amazed at how inconsistently
the + is handled. Today there are fewer web facing interfaces that will
reject it but in a surprising number of cases things go into the bit
bucket further down the line.
Using a plus type address place an order at a web site and successfully
receive the order but never receive any of the mail associated with the
order. At large organization I created an account through their web
site using my address without the plus. Received all my email from them
for quite a while. Then logged in to the site, using my email address,
and changed the address to contain a +. I logged out, no longer
received any email from them, and then couldn't login to my account any
longer because + was rejected as an invalid character. Had to call them
up on the phone to have them manually change my email address back.
I haven't used the - that often but I can't recall any instances of
where it wasn't accepted or with delivery issues caused by it.
Depending on where you're submitting it, if you're allowed to supply an
address that contains a + but it ends up suppressing email delivery from
them, maybe that's not a bad thing!
-
John J.
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