Create a temporary email alias to filter incoming mail

This guide explains how to easily sort your messages using Plus-Addressing ("+ addressing" or "sub-addressing"), which are email aliases that do not need to be actually created on an Infomaniak Mail Service.

What is + addressing used for?

This feature is free and allows you to have multiple versions of your existing email address (= aliases), so you can, for example, separate your personal emails from the newsletters you are subscribed to.

These "wildcard" aliases mean that a message can be addressed to an email address containing a + (e.g., abc+def@domain.xyz), and it will still arrive in the existing mailbox abc@domain.xyz and can be automatically filtered and sorted based on what comes after the "+" if you set it up.

Note that there is also the possibility to create real aliases without the + character...

Using an alias with an Infomaniak email address

The next time you sign up for a newsletter or a client area that requires a username:

• simply use a formulation of your email address including the "+" sign (e.g., anna+newsletter@domain.xyz) instead of providing your real email address

So if your usual email address is anna@domain.xyz, emails addressed to anna+newsletter@domain.xyz or anna+WhateverYouWant@domain.xyz will arrive in the inbox of anna@domain.xyz.

Then, to automatically move future messages sent to your aliases to specific folders:

• create filters to specify what to do with incoming emails addressed to your alias