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by imron 3373 days ago
Switch to Fastmail.

You can make addresses on the fly like microsoft@cryptarch.fastmail.com (which will automatically be resolved and sent to cryptarch+microsoft@fastmail.com) and you'll save the hassle of having to run and maintain your own mail server.

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gmail supports having +stuff in your email address too. it's fairly easy to set up filters to put stuff into folders based on the email it got sent to.
That's different from what I described above.

You don't use a '+' at all in the fastmail email addresses you give out.

For example, say with gmail you have name+stuff@gmail.com, with fastmail you could use that if you wanted, but you can also use stuff@name.fastmail.com

If fastmail receives mail on that address, it converts it for you as if it had been sent to name+stuff@fastmail.com instead.

This happens entirely on the fly so you can make 'proper looking' emails without a '+'