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Would it be possible to handle email addresses with the + trick?

E.g. you can supply your email address as foo+bar@<domain> and mail sent to that address will be routed to foo@<domain> by some providers like gmail and protonmail.

But then that means enumerating every + address you use (I almost exclusively do this).

Thoughts? I know this came up in a HIBP forum and I think Troy Hunt took the position of too much work for 0.1% of users, many of whom are likely technical enough to use a password manager and do this enumeration if they wanted.



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