Author: Adam M. Costello Date: To: exim-dev Subject: Re: [exim-dev] Saving the variable part of local part suffixes
Michael Haardt <michael@???> wrote:
> Ok, so now we have people using subaddresses as prefix and as suffix.
> Anybody who does both? :)
I do. See the From: field. I use a prefix subaddress (delimited by
dot) for a meaningful subdivision of my mailbox, and a suffix subaddress
(delimited by plus) for a meaningless variant, so that I can disable the
address if it becomes known to spammers, and start using a new suffix
without having to update any filters I might have set up based on the
prefix.
Prefix subaddresses are consistent with the overall little-endian
order of email addresses, and suffix subaddresses visually bury the
subaddress; therefore prefixes and suffixes are are well suited for
meaningful and meaningless subaddresses, respectively.
My outgoing non-list mail is From: amc+randomstring+@... with a new
random suffix for each message, but for list mail I reuse a non-random
suffix to play nice with permission-to-post mechanisms based on the
sender address.
