On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:45 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Hi. > > Brion Vibber wrote: >> I personally have a bunch of test accounts that probably have the same >> email, and I'm sure some folks have bots and other things set up >> similarly. Note that many email providers including Gmail allow email >> aliases with "+" and something else after your mailbox name, such as >> 'johndoe+testing99 at wikimedia.org'; I've used this in the past to have >> separate accounts on one email for Apple and other providers as well. > > It's probably difficult to estimate, but I wonder what percentage of users > are currently using a mail provider that supports this type of behavior. > On the one hand, I thought Gmail/Google Apps was alone in supporting > account+someth...@example.com functionality, but on the other hand, nearly > everybody seems to be using Gmail/Google Apps these days.
RFC 5321 says that interpretation and validation of the local part of an email address is left entirely to the receiving host [0] which makes verifying which hosts support various "subaddressing" methods [1] difficult. As mentioned in [[en:Email address]] [2] however there are quite a few large mail services and common mail transfer agent packages support some type of subaddressing or tagging although with various syntax variations. [0]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-2.3.11 [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Address_tags Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
