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Messages to +owner being wrongly routed to the whole group

Over on the Group Manager's Forum, it was suggested that I raise this problem here. Please read through the topic with the same name as this one on that group to see the full story, but in essence the

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Messages to +owner being wrongly routed to the whole group

Lena: This practice (of stripping the localpart after a +) may not be just happening at the single mailserver that we have found (synchronoss.net). .It may be a single TYPE of mailserver equipment or

By ... · #22277 ·

Messages to +owner being wrongly routed to the whole group

Lena: Its true that we have only found one mailserver with this bug so far, but the type of mailserver with this bug could appear in other locations and I don't think it is safe to continue using a +

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Messages to +owner being wrongly routed to the whole group

Duane: Dave says that a dot is safe because dots are used by everybody and they ARE safe - I have one in my own email address. We know that + CAN be unsafe because we found a situation where it IS uns

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Messages to +owner being wrongly routed to the whole group

Mark/Shal: The fact that gmail ignores dots in the leftside of email addresses, is not relevant to this discussion. Gmail ONLY do this on emails coming into the gmail domain, and that's reasonable. Th

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Messages to +owner being wrongly routed to the whole group

Thanks for that Dave! For the benefit of the others reading this, I believe Dave is referring to a group in which both Dave and I (and Chris) are members, and the individual in question was ME! regard

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Messages to +owner being wrongly routed to the whole group

Shal's reference to gmail using "+" in some way associated with aliases, is not consistent with the observation (by me and others) that gmail truncates leftsides at a "+" . An email to username+anytex

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Messages to +owner being wrongly routed to the whole group

In my last message message, something or someone downstream of me replaced the word "gmail" after the @ symbol, by three dots,in two places, and that wrecked the meaning. Truncation of the user-part a

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Messages to +owner being wrongly routed to the whole group

Shal: Understood now. So if no aliases are defined and I send an email to <myname+sometext@...>, it will simply strip and discard "+sometext" (which is what I have seen), whereas if I define an

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