Support dot (.) in alias prefix

[nguyenkims]

Moved from https://trello.com/c/4EtvhofF/123-support-dot-in-alias-prefix

[ITechGeek81]

I don't understand why this isn't available w/ manually created aliases. My auto-created aliases made via the catch-all addresses have no issues w/ periods. The issue w/ the period seems to strictly be in the front-end interface.

[nguyenkims]

Hi the main reason is that some special characters like dot sign (.) are reserved for future uses. Currently we don't really have a use case that would need to dot sign though so I think supporting dot sign in alias prefix should be straightforward.

[bingoxo]

I have encountered many websites rejecting the alias when (+) is used , so please implement (.) asap :)

[pocki]

I also have encountered many websites where only dot (.), underline (_) or minus (-) where possible.

[ITechGeek81]

Period (.) is a very common character in email addresses, especially in a case where someone is using their name.

In my case, I like to create email addresses as <domain.tld>@, I only found out the period wasn't available because I wanted to pre-create a email address for a service to set update it's destinations before hand.

[codywd]

Yeah, I have several domains where I use first.last@domain.com. I switched them from various providers (MXLogin primarily) to SimpleLogin. Just easier to manage a single inbox. But I can no longer do first.last, so it's firstlast right now

[codywd]

Funny enough, if you turn on the catch-all feature for your custom domain (not sure if it works on non-custom domains), it'll create an email with a dot in it just fine.

[nguyenkims]

Just to let you know that the dot sign is now supported in the latest SaaS version (aka simplelogin.io) and will be included in the next self-hosted version :)

[nguyenkims]

Oh I see, the dot sign in this case can't be distinguished with the current custom alias creation unfortunately.

[bingoxo]

i think the use case i mentioned is more important than what's implemented now or maybe you can make a poll about it

[jdahdah]

Thank you! Would you please also enable this in the extension?

[nguyenkims]

@ntnhon do you think we can release a new version of the safari extension that supports dot sign (.) in alias prefix? We haven't started converting the chrome/firefox extension to safari one yet so in the meantime, we still need to support the safari one ...

[nguyenkims]

The new safari extension now supports dot sign (.) in alias prefix
The new extension can be downloaded on https://apps.apple.com/app/id6475835429