Plus Addressing: What to Know

How Plus Addressing Helps You Manage Email Easily

Organizing your inbox becomes difficult when you use the same address for everything: sign-ups, orders, support messages and newsletters.
Plus addressing, also called subaddressing, is a useful way to keep everything under control without creating new accounts or aliases.

How It Works

Plus addressing lets you add a “+label” to your main address so you can manage every flow of messages more clearly.
Here is an example.

1. Start with your address: john.doe@mysite.com
2. When you sign up for an online service, add a “+” and a keyword: john.doe+socialnetwork@mysite.com
3. All messages sent to that address arrive in the same inbox, and you can recognize them immediately from the recipient field

In the Qboxmail Webmail you can create a rule that moves any message sent to an address containing +socialnetwork into the “Social” folder you created earlier.

Plus addressing is useful for:

• filtering and sorting email by creating rules that move messages based on the word after the “+”
• identifying the source of unwanted messages, because each “+tag” tells you where the address was used
• creating temporary addresses for registrations or tests without changing the mailbox configuration

Security and Privacy

Plus addressing also helps protect your privacy.
By using different variants of the same address, you can monitor who shares your data and reduce the risk of spam or unwanted tracking.
If a specific address starts receiving unwanted messages, you can block it or filter it without touching the main account.

A Small Trick that Saves Time

Plus addressing is supported by most providers and does not require activation.
It is a simple way to organize your email and keep control of your inbox, especially if you manage many messages every day.