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hobofan on June 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police departmen...

That works for GMail but not for a lot of other email providers.

bildung on June 2, 2020 [–]

Isn't that part of the email RFCs for 2 decades or so? Postfix certainly supports this for quite a while now.

Edit: sendmail and qmail, too, apparently: https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addr...

lighthazard on June 2, 2020 | [–]

Too bad Comcast/Xfinity and other ISPs don't really provide up-to-spec email clients or servers. Who cute.old.couple@comcast most likely uses.

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