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▲ gavinray a day ago

Just an FYI: You can do this with an email

Email allows "+<suffix>" to be appended to any email.

The usual case is something like "user+testing@site.com", or "user+bills@site.com".

It's a way to auto-tag your incoming mail. You can use one of these "+" suffixes on a per-app basis and then add a spam filter to permanently burn one of them if you get spammed.

▲maw a day ago | parent | next [-]

I used to do this when I could, but many poorly written email validators reject such addresses. (One service, Rappi, was so gloriously, hopelessly broken that they spammed me now and then at the address with a + in it but I couldn't use it to log in!)

Now I just use Fastmail's masked address feature. (And I do not use Rappi.)

▲e12e a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I remember a scheme from the 90s that put a keyed hash in there - and a filter that only accepted valid ones - checked with a key. I think there was an optional date (valid-to).

So you might give someone an address like:

dell-rep-01012027-<hash>@anymail example.com

▲dom96 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't that a gmail-only feature?

▲e12e a day ago | parent | next [-]

It's almost as old as SMTP - with various implementations in exim, qmail, postfix etc (plus/minus, minus, plus seperator).

"email suffix addresses".

Gmail and o365 support it, not sure about Apple.

▲gavinray a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5233/

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