{"id":52181,"date":"2019-04-09T08:59:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/?p=52181"},"modified":"2019-04-09T08:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:59:35","slug":"plus-addressing-in-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devel.www.cpanel.net\/blog\/products\/plus-addressing-in-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Plus Addressing in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year, we shared &#8220;<a href=_-2843.html>7 Ways We&#8217;ve Improved Email Hosting on cPanel &amp; WHM<\/a>&#8221; and&nbsp;we looked at some cool features for email accounts. After much improvement, we felt that Plus Addressing was an interesting enough feature to include as a blog post!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So what is plus addressing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Known officially as subaddressing, plus addressing delivers mail in a particular way so that you can better organize incoming mail. Additionally, plus addressing is used as&nbsp;a method to spot if a company is selling your email address without your permission. The format for plus addressing is username+word@domain.tld. For example, if my email address is&nbsp;<a href=_-2844.html>John@example.com<\/a>,&nbsp;a plus addressing version&nbsp;of the address may be&nbsp;<a href=_-2845.html>John+list@example.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=plus_addressing_at_cpanel_dot_com33ce2.html?version=1&amp;modificationDate=1553190181077&amp;api=v2\%22 alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice the &#8220;+&#8221; symbol and the word &#8220;list&#8221; that follows &#8220;John&#8221;:&nbsp;the email software&nbsp;recognizes this format and delivers emails addressed to&nbsp;<a href=_-2845.html>John+list@example.com<\/a>&nbsp;to the &#8220;list&#8221; folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When would I use Plus Addressing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, if I were to sign up for cPanel&#8217;s Events&nbsp;<a href=_-2143.html>Mailing List<\/a>, I could create an email address formatted like&nbsp;John+cpevents@example.com.&nbsp;When I receive an email from that company, my server will place that message in the mailbox folder called &#8220;cpevents&#8221; automatically. Any emails that I get from that company addressed to&nbsp;John+cpevents@example.com&nbsp;will go straight into that folder, instead of cluttering up my inbox. Yay\u2014organization!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So how would I spot if a company was selling my email address without my permission?&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So if you\u2019ve signed up for a mailing list for a company using a plus addressing email address, mail from that company should be delivered to the appended +folder location. If for any reason you see unsolicited emails to your plus addressing email address, then you know that email has been resold. Adding a +folder appending to your email account allows you to easily spot unsolicited mass email and unsubscribe (or report) those bad actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Can I use this&nbsp;<\/strong><em>right now<\/em><strong>!?!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This feature was introduced in cPanel &amp; WHM Version 58, so as long as you&#8217;re running a supported version of our software, this feature is available to you!&nbsp;If you have any further questions, suggestions on how to use plus addressing to your advantage, or want to discuss further, please join our official&nbsp;<a href=_-323.html>Slack<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=_-38.html>Discord<\/a>&nbsp;channels, or join our official cPanel&nbsp;<a href=_-39.html>subreddit<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we shared &#8220;7 Ways We&#8217;ve Improved Email Hosting on cPanel &amp; WHM&#8221; and&nbsp;we looked at some cool features for email accounts. After much improvement, we felt that Plus Addressing was an interesting enough feature to include as a blog post!&nbsp; So what is plus addressing? Known officially as subaddressing, plus addressing delivers mail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":65145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[209,497],"class_list":["post-52181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-email","tag-feature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Use Plus Addressing in cPanel | cPanel<\/title>\n
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