Email address tagging or also known as sub-addressing could be quiet handy when you want to signup for newsletters.
Lets say you want to signup for newsletters from different sites. In this case you could simply enter an email address like below in the signup form.
address+newsletter@domain.com
Now all email received from signed up newsletter sites will have the from address as address+newsletter@domain.com. This will enable you to send all newsletters to one folder by creating a simple filter / rule. Easy organisation of emails isn’t it?
So start using email address tagging and organise your mailbox more efficiently.
I do this. It’s also called “plus addressing”. However, many web forms use broken regular expressions to check email addresses on subscription, and frequently prevent use of the plus symbol. This includes yours!
So, I also use opayq.com from Abine. It has a browser plugin that lets you generate random addresses, and a web interface that lets you disable delivery to addresses as necessary. Finally, it’s not possible to guess my primary address from the opayq.com address.
I suppose that last thing would not be a problem if I used a dedicated address, and didn’t accept mail to the