Plus Addressing is a feature of SmarterMail that allows you to automatically filter your incoming mail without first creating a content filtering rule. To demonstrate this ability, please consider the following example of plus addressing:
An Example email address:
myname@example.com
Assume your email address is myname@example.com and you want to sign up for a newsletter called ACME News. Furthermore, you want that newsletter to be delivered to a specific folder in your email web interface called "ACME". If plus addressing enabled. Then all you have to do is sign up for the
newsletter with the email address below:
myname+ACME@example.com
Note: that the folder name is AFTER the username but before the @example.com.
When the newsletter gets delivered to your email account, it will be directed to the ACME folder,
which will be created automatically if it does not already exist. No additional steps are required.
The whole process is automatic once, you enable the feature.
In addition, if you include the '/' character in your plus address, you can automatically create
sub-folders, as in the following example:
myname+Newsletters/ACME@example.com
This email address will create a folder called Newsletters, then create an ACME folder under it, and
drop the newsletter into the ACME folder.
As an added bonus, you can connect to folders in your email using POP3 by using plus addressed emails.
The example above, when input into your POP email client as your login name, will return the contents of
the folder.
To enable Plus Addressing in SmarterMail:
1) Login to the web interface as a Domain Administrator
2) Click Domain Settings
3) Click Default User Settings
4) Click the Plus Addressing tab
5) Check the Enable check box
6) Select one of these three options:
a. Move to folder
b. Move to folder if it exists
c. Leave in Inbox
7) Click Save
To enable Plus Addressing in SmarterMail:
1) Login to the web interface as a User
2) Click Settings
3) Click My Settings
4) Click the Plus Addressing tab
5) Check the Enable check box
6) Select one of these three options:
a. Move to folder
b. Move to folder if it exists
c. Leave in Inbox
7) Click Save