For security reasons

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Please use a personal email. My email is 'mail' @ 'my actual name'. It does not get more personal than that

But you can't use emails starting with mail@, admin@, support@, info@, main@, etc.

Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

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Gmail allow using a + to create faux-labels

I wonder how they handle gmail addresses with dots as you can put dot in anywhere and it still will redirect to your email.

I've setup (for few services which don't allow + sign) emails like foobar@gmail.com, foo.bar@gmail.com, fo.o.bar@gmail.com and they all come to my inbox.

IIRC Gmail interprets foo.bar, f.o.o.b.a.r and foobar as the same account (the latter).

At some point they didn't, so I heard there are now a couple of accounts that only differ in dot and it's not yet resolved by Google ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yep, that what I was trying to say 😄 Been using that feature for years.

I imagine because it can't be used to add additional junk characters to the address, they probably just strip them out before doing their string comparison

If they know this case. In other email services dots are usually not a junk characters.