Plus Addressing
Does TBird support plus addressing?
Scenario: I want to reply to email sent "To: markfilipak+joe@...". To do that successfully, in the "Write" dialog, I have to click on "From", scroll down to "Customize From Address...", click it, and add "+joe". (There is a menu alternative: "Options","Customize From Address...".)
If I forget to do that, then my reply does not have "+joe"; it goes out "From: markfilipak@...".
The Issue: When Joe replies to _that_ message, it does not have "+joe", so Joe's reply is trashed. (It's trashed because a filter I wrote automatically deletes messages that do not have "To: markfilipak+<something>@..." in the header.
The sensible way to handle plus addressing is for TBird to recognize plus addressing and to automatically make my "From" header from Joe's "To" header. That way, "+joe" will always be there.
Is there a way to do that?
Thanks Folks! -- Mark.
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> Is there a way to do that?
Apparently not. You could file a bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi/) for that. If you do, please post the link to it here.
I do not understand your problem. It needs more detail. I successfully test plus addressing and it works as intended. Part of your issue may be that you have a filter that strips the message. My understanding is that this is a feature of gmail. If you set up plus addresses as aliases in gmail, you can send and receive it. So, a message from a person using 'emailaddress+joe@gmail.com, can be readily replied to as emailaddress+joe@gmail.com. What am I not understanding here? I do not see a bug here. the plus addressing was defined by an email provider and that email provider administers these aliases, just as other email providers administer their aliases.
My guess is that you do not have the alias defined in your account. To function properly, aliases need to be defined in 'managed identities.' Try that and see if that fixes the issue. This is not a bug, and I want to help you get through the issue. thank you
david said
My guess is that you do not have the alias defined in your account.
Thank you. Plus addressing is not aliasing. Plus addressing is adding a plus, +, after your name or alias. David, do you use plus addressing?
My awareness is with Gmail, where the plus addresses are defined. The email provider needs to acknowledge the plus address. if plus addressing is not dependent on the email provider's awareness, I have not heard of it. Is there a provider that does this?
Plus addressing is just gmails way of creating aliases.
You need to define each plus address as an identity in Thunderbird, and then it will work in Thunderbird. You don't need to take my word for it - create an identity and test it. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-identities
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