I recently discovered that Google mail accounts (gmail) allows a unique
form of e-mail address. It turns out you can use your e-mail name and
add a plus sign (+) and some other word to form a valid e-mail address.
For example, if I had an account at gmail with my user name of
not-my-real-address, I could do something like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and mail would be delivered to not-my-real-address, but the To: address
would show as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have done some tests and this works great. I can now create arbitrary
e-mail address for various accounts and know where it came from or who
leaked my e-mail address.
The problem now arises where certain web sites reject the e-mail address
as being invalid because of the inclusion of the plus sign. In my
reading of RFC822, pretty much any character except for a few special
characters can be used in the address. A plus sign is not considered
special as near as I can tell.
I'm I wrong, or are these web sites that do e-mail address validation
screwed up?
Gus
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