Gmail supports it, which is the big one and as long as they have it, it will be around for a long time. To be clear, only the email server at the final destination needs to support it, not every server in the relay chain as they just see a bunch of characters.
I've only run into a handful of web sites which prevent you from using the + in an email address, and usually that's done as a javascript check. A quick "inspect element" and changing the handler to "true" disables that, and once the address is in the system, I've not had any problems. ❧ Brian Mathis @orev On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote: > > The modern way to do this is by using "plus addressing", which is a > standard (though not supported by all email hosts) where you tag your > regular email address like this: > [email protected] > > > Pedantically: plus addressing is a *convention* not a *standard* (at least > I know of no RFC for it). > > As you allude to, some e-mail systems will conflate "you+foo@", "you+bar@" > and "you@" all into the mailbox for "you", which is considered a feature > by many (and one which many of us have used). Some mail-systems will not, > and will treat all three local-parts as representing separate and distinct > addresses. > > The number of e-mail systems which support this conflation is decreasing > over time, at least that is my experience. > > D > > -- > > I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A 6990 > F035 DE9E > 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it here > <http://www.megacity.org/gpg_pub_derek_balling.txt>. > > Learn how to encrypt your email with the Email Self Defense guide > <https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/>. > > > > >
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