Masked email
 

Since the introduction of this facility I'm finding I use it more and more. Really cool feature and so easy to use from either a browser or the Fastmail app.

However I'm finding some website rejecting the masked email as the masked email contains a period ".".

Clearly those website don't understand that email addresses can be formatted that way, however is there a way of creating a masked email without a period? Or is there another way round this other than having to revert to my previous practice of creating a dedicated email address.

Simply leaving the period out results in a delivery failure of course.

Wow masked as in your addy is hidden??

How would they reply?? :D


I remember when I had a fastmail account (Basic interface) you could change your email address and if ya left it blank,it would send the email and it would say it was from "MAILER DEAMON" (Like a bounced email)

Kinda neat.....

Read about Fastmail Masked Email at:
https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/a...1-Masked-Email


Bill

Any ideas of being able to create a masked email address without the period "."?

Hi ewal,
I think that’s not possible at the moment. Just out of curiosity, can you tell an example site that is rejecting such an email address? I’ve not seen this so far anywhere, and a dot is quite common in email addresses, isn’t it? My company address for instance is firstname.lastname@company.



Cheers,
Michael

I've been using firstname.lastname@mydomain for years without any problems. I hope I'm not going to have to change that.

I'm wondering if it's something to do with this, which seems like the lamest scam in history. IMO this is 100% a Netflix problem for sending billing emails to unverified addresses.

I would think you can use whatever ya want :)

... provided "whatever you want" fits the rules mandated by the RFCs.

It's not reasonable to expect forms of email address NOT mandated by the RFCs to work, though.

Dots are allowed in email addresses.

It's all very well saying "dots are allowed", but that assumes that the site you are trying to register with knows that...
A similar issue was raised here:
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=78705

Yes, obviously. You are taking my post out of its context.

Oh, I see. Slight misunderstanding. No offence intended.

Sorry for delay.

here is one:

theepochtimes.com

Hi Ewal,


I could sign up for a free account with my masked email address (containing a dot character) without any problem.


When you say they’re rejecting your email address, what exactly do you mean by that? You get an error message directly after entering your address?

Something like "wrong format email address" . When I removed the period dot "." it worked.

But of course I would never receive any emails without the period so I simply created an alias on one of my domains.

Maybe it is a browser issue? I use Chrome - I did not try using different browser.