Plus Addressing, wildcards & more

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ShawnKHall
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Plus Addressing, wildcards & more

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I've been looking for something like Gmail's address tagging feature in MailEnable for years. I search the new manual with every release and check back in every year or so to see if/when it will finally be added. Come to find out it's already there as "Plus Addressing" via a registry change.
https://mailenable.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12043&start=15

Unfortunately, while this is a step in the right direction, what I really want is the ability to use custom formatting to avoid the "just strip out the plus sign and everything after it" method of harvesting email addresses that's used against our Gmail addresses. For example, I want to be able to use ? and * to represent single and multiple characters without having to use a plus at all. I should be able to use "john*@" as an alias and any message sent to "johnsmith@", "johnedwards@" or "johnboy@" would be delivered to that account unless it were explicitly aliased elsewhere.

Mailbox priority should be matched based on the following rules:
1) explicit address (no wildcards: "johnboy@")
2) wildcard matches with the most static text ("john*@")
3) wildcard matches with less static text ("j*@")
4) catch-all ("*@")

First: Is something like this already possible with the right registry hack, addressmap modification, or pickup event?
Second: If not, is there any plan to provide this type of ability?

Thank you.
-Shawn

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