Plus Addressing is a feature of SmarterMail that allows you to automatically filter your incoming mail into folders without first creating a content filtering rule. To demonstrate this ability, please consider the following example of plus addressing:

Assume your email address is myname@example.com and you want to sign up for a newsletter called ACME News. Furthermore, you want that newsletter to be delivered to a specific folder in your email web interface called "ACME".  If plus addressing is enabled on your account, all you have to do is sign up for the newsletter with the email address below:

myname+ACME@example.com

NOTE that the folder name is AFTER the username but before the @example.com.

When the newsletter gets delivered to your email account, it will be directed to the ACME folder, which will be created automatically if it does not already exist. No additional steps are required.  In addition, if you include the '/' character in your plus address, you can automatically create sub-folders, as in the following example: 

myname+Newsletters/ACME@example.com

To enable Plus Addressing in SmarterMail:

1. Login to the web interface as a Domain Administrator.
2. Click Settings Icon.
3. Expand Domain Settings, then Advanced Settings Folder.
4. Click Default User Settings.
5. Click the Plus Addressing tab.
6. Click the Enable plus addressing check box to enable.
7. Select one of these three options:
   1. Move to folder
   2. Move to folder if it exists
   3. Leave in Inbox
8. Click Save.

Using Plus Addressing to enhance POP

Usually, POP only downloads the Inbox.  If you use Plus Addressing, you can connect to folders in your email using POP by using plus addressed email addresses.

For example, when you use "myname+ACME@example.com" as your login name in a POP client, it will return the contents of the ACME folder.

For more information about Plus Addressing in SmarterMail, please refer to the SmarterMail Online Help.