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Moru on June 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Firefox Monitor

As does Gmail. But not all services supports the + on login forms.

I believe this was part of the email standard?

stavros on June 5, 2019 [–]

The email standard does include the +, yes. Here's a talk on the topic:

https://youtu.be/xxX81WmXjPg

But yes, that's why Fastmail supports the alternative syntax.

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