Email Address Trick

Something that might be useful to you…

I recently found that some email services allow the use of an extension, but ignore it and route the email to the correct email address.

I have found this useful when I want email for myself and my wife to go to one email address, but the company won’t allow it due to HIPAA rules.

Example: 

From this example, you can see that everything between the “+” and the “@” are ignored.

In my testing, I have found that not all email services will allow this, so make sure you test it.

  • Gmail – Yes
  • Outlook – Yes
  • Proton – Yes
  • Earthlink – No
  • ATT/Yahoo – No

I’ve seen other uses for this trick on the internet. 

Have fun & be careful.