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ddavness / power-mailinabox

A Mail-in-a-Box with extra capabilities and more customizability. Not just for power users!
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Dotted email addresses #63

Closed ucsendre closed 1 year ago

ucsendre commented 2 years ago

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

leancode commented 2 years ago

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

ddavness commented 2 years ago

As it looks out, the standard says that dots do matter. Google even admits that on Google Workspace (aka work or school Google accounts), johndoe@example.com and john.doe@example.com 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.