{"id":3373,"date":"2018-08-24T11:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2018-08-24T11:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T16:02:40","slug":"did-you-know-sub-addressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3373","title":{"rendered":"Did you know … Sub-addressing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you need to provide your company e-mail address \u2013 registering for a conference or training class, signing up for an industry newsletter. Unfortunately, this can lead to an inundation of unwanted mail.<\/p>\n

Exchange Online supports something called \u201csub-addressing\u201d (so does Gmail … and you can test your email service’s support of this feature by sending yourself a message from some other source. If it gets delivered, you’re good. If not … bummer!). Sub-addressing allows you to slightly<\/em> modify your e-mail address to customize it for every situation \u2013 between your last name and the \u2018@\u2019 symbol, put a plus and then some unique text. It will look like Your.N.Ame+SomeIdentifier@domain.ccTLD<\/a> instead of Your.N.Ame@domain.ccTLD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When signing up for a Microsoft newsletter, I can tell them my e-mail address is Lisa.Rushworth+MicrosoftSecuritySlate@domain.ccTLD<\/a> \u2026 and messages to that address will still be delivered to me. When I sign up for the NANPA code administration newsletter, I can tell them my e-mail address is Lisa.Rushworth+NANPACodeAdmin@domain.ccTLD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Should you start receiving unwanted solicitations to the sub-address, you can then create a rule to delete messages sent to<\/em> that address.<\/p>\n

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You can also alert the person to whom you provided the address that their contact list may have been compromised … although my luck with that<\/em> hasn’t been particularly good. Most companies deny any possibility that they<\/em> might be the source of disclosure. Even when the address disclosed is Me+YourCompanyNameHere@… because that<\/em> is something someone randomly generated. Sigh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes you need to provide your company e-mail address \u2013 registering for a conference or training class, signing up for an industry newsletter. Unfortunately, this can lead to an inundation of unwanted mail. Exchange Online supports something called \u201csub-addressing\u201d (so does Gmail … and you can test your email service’s support of this feature by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[648,647,649],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-spam-reduction","tag-subaddressing","tag-unique-email-address"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}