A disadvantage I have found with this approach is that some Java based email address verifiers on web forms do not accept addresses containing hyphens.
Many web-based email address "checkers" are brain dead -- Java, JavaScript, PHP, etc. (I know, I had to fix a web site that had one.) A lot of people assume that email addresses can only have letters & numbers and underscores. Sometimes dashes or periods. This has never been true -- sendmail for a very long time has allowed addresses of the form "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which most of these "checkers" will reject as "invalid".
The fact is that RFCs allow for virtually anything in the local portion of the email address. It was an explicit design choice, since the Internet connected so many types of email systems. (Anyone remember bang (!) addressing?)
Because of this, when I sent up a restricted catch-all account, I usually have to set up several variants. (name-detail, name+detail, name.detail, etc.) It sucks. Complain to webmasters about this. Since you run your own mail server (else why would you be on this list :-), feel free to make a non-detail valid email address, so you can explicitly complain to them. Be sure to let their supervisors know that they're keeping you (a customer) from using their systems.
Sorry for the rant, but I believe it to be somewhat on topic, else I wouldn't have posted.
Tim
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