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Dotted email addresses

Open ucsendre opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Hello,

Is it possible to implement “dots don’t matter” feature in power-mailinabox? I mean like it works in gmail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en Too bad MiaB does not support this: https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/dotted-email-address/9279

Thank you! Best regards, Endre

ucsendre avatar Jun 30 '22 12:06 ucsendre

You can just create a dotted alias that sends to the non-dotted alias.

leancode avatar Jul 22 '22 16:07 leancode

As it looks out, the standard says that dots do matter. Google even admits that on Google Workspace (aka work or school Google accounts), [email protected] and [email protected] are two different inboxes and could very well be two different people.

For that reason, I cannot implement such a feature. In fact, it would be a bit awkward if we had someone activate such a feature while having two accounts, johndoe and john.doe - we could end up in a inconsistent internal state and that would be a giant mess to handle.

ddavness avatar Sep 08 '22 10:09 ddavness