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Has anyone standardised on plus notations usage?

1 pointsby mofosynealmost 2 years ago
I was thinking... until we implement some form of metadata to emails...<p>Could we have some standard to encourage the use of + notations and a list of recommended email filters that can be easily imported to gmail&#x2F;thunderbird&#x2F;etc... to autosort emails to the right folder?<p>(For searchability, this is called subaddressing, but it is also known as plus addressing, tagged addressing or mail extensions)<p>If we can get enough companies and individuals to stick to this notations, then it would make managing emails and filtering emails less of a hassle.<p>I&#x27;m thinking of a list that would have one field called &#x27;well-known&#x27; tag and another row that would contain description.<p>As for the plus address... should we append a UUID to make it more distinct? e.g. `testuser+invoice-b8e10d8c-5a3b-4006-93e7-9e7180d80215@example.com` which would have a well known subaddress tag &#x27;invoice&#x27; and a UUID which would have a more detailed explanation that this is an incoming invoice etc...<p>One possible reason for having a UUID, is maybe you have an invoice that is actually a bit more structured... (e.g. has an einvoice that can be parsed by a program or something) so maybe it be good to be able to disambiguate between both?<p>Anyway that&#x27;s enough thoughts before we veer off into bikeshedding territory. Be happy to hear your thoughts if this should be explored further.

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