there used to be an email "+" folder field

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Some time ago there used to be some standard that if your
email address was [email protected], you could give out your address as
[email protected] and when your email arrived it went into a folder named
"c". In effect, anything after the "+" was like a comment. I thought
it was a cool feature at the time, but I could nto get it to work. I
think this would be a great feature to help us tame email, no?


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in comp.mail.headers i read:
Some time ago there used to be some standard that if your
email address was [email protected], you could give out your address as
[email protected] and when your email arrived it went into a folder named
"c". In effect, anything after the "+" was like a comment.
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this is an extension offered by some mta's, not something which has been
standardized. other mta's offer something similar, but with a dash. still
others do other things, some seemingly quite different.
 
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