[MlMt] Sending via gmail with +

Johan Adriaans johan at driaans.nl
Thu Mar 10 05:05:28 EST 2016


Just as a side note: This is referred to as “subaddressing” (or plus-addressing, detailed addressing), described in RFC5233: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233

Might help ;)

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Johan

On 9 Mar 2016, at 23:11, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 9 Mar 2016, at 17:07, Kee Hinckley wrote:
>
>> I'm using the same settings that I've always used in MailMate to allow sending from an alternate address (in this case kee+freron at hinckley.com) but now I'm using gmail as a sender and the mailing list is rejecting my email as not being from a legit address (I just subscribed without the + so I could send this). My guess is gmail is doing something different in the handling, but does anyone know what, or how to get around it?
>
> If I remember correctly then Gmail allows you to receive emails to “+” variants of your email address, but you cannot use them for sending emails. I have no idea why (and I might not remember it correctly).
>
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