Can Sonic email ignore part of email addresses?

[darrylo]

(I think the answer is, "no", but I thought I'd ask anyway.)

Hi, does Sonic email ignore part of Sonic email addresses? For example, gmail ignores any "+foo" part of the email address: "example+foo@gmail.com" is the same as "example@gmail.com". Is there anything similar for Sonic? Thanks.

[williamt]

That's called plus addressing/routing and it works at sonic too.
username+tag@sonic.net would get routed to you.

[gp1628]

Isnt that part of the email standard? Like using ! in an address. Or being able to address emails to an IP number

[thulsa_doom]

Isnt that part of the email standard? Like using ! in an address. Or being able to address emails to an IP number

Well, there are standards and then there are standards. RFC1855 says you shouldn't top-post, but nobody clued in the folks that made my phone's mail client.

[darrylo]

That's called plus addressing/routing and it works at sonic too.
username+tag@sonic.net would get routed to you.

Thanks. Nice to know that it works.

[darrylo]

Isnt that part of the email standard? Like using ! in an address. Or being able to address emails to an IP number

I did some digging, and there's really no standard for that. In fact, the mail server is apparently free to interpret everything after the "+" however it wants. Some email services, like gmail and sonic, ignore everything after the "+", while apparently other services treat everything after the "+" as a mail folder (actually, RFC 5233 uses "jdoe+foo@example.com" to mean mailbox "foo" belonging to user "jdoe" -- yes, "mailbox", not "mail folder").

[virtualmike]

RFC1855 says you shouldn't top-post, but nobody clued in the folks that made my phone's mail client.

No one clued in the folks at Microsoft about many of the RFCs.