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  • disroot, anyone?

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Thu May 19 08:22:00 2022

    A new one I just heard about.. https://disroot.org

    The project is based in Amsterdam, was founded by Muppeth and
    Antilopa in 2015, it is maintained by volunteers and relies on
    the support of its community.

    Mailbox size limit: 1 GB
    Attachement size limit: 64 MB

    One particular feature..

    Delimiters: You can use delimiters (plus sign, "+") in your
    email address to create sub-addresses, like
    username+whatever@disroot.org, for example for filtering and
    tracking spam. Example: david@disroot.org can set up mail
    addresses like 'david+bank@disroot.org' that he could give to
    his bank. It can be used only to receive emails, not to send
    ones. Your emails will always be sent as david@disroot.org.

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  • From Joe Phigan@1:305/3 to August Abolins on Fri May 20 02:20:23 2022
    Delimiters: You can use delimiters (plus sign, "+") in your
    email address to create sub-addresses, like

    Just FYI, you can do this with GMail, too.. But then you'd have to use Google :).

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Joe Phigan on Sun May 22 15:14:00 2022
    Hello Joe Phigan!

    ** On Friday 20.05.22 - 02:20, Joe Phigan wrote to August Abolins:

    Delimiters: You can use delimiters (plus sign, "+") in
    your email address to create sub-addresses, like

    Just FYI, you can do this with GMail, too.. But then you'd
    have to use Google :).

    It seems that disroot.org is trying to entice gmail users over?
    However, it seems to be a flawed implementation. Disroot is
    intended for encrypted private comms. But adding a +delimeter
    breaks the encryption systems that people might have for the
    non-delimited version of an email address.

    Personally, I never really used the + feature. Thunderbird
    doesn't support it on the outbound, so telling people to use first.last+somethinghere@gmail.com won't work for everyone.
    Only people within the same gmail-sphere might benefit.

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