Plus Addressing on Microsoft 365

Intro

How many times you want to download some software and have to give you email address before you can download it. now you can create in a fast way a special e-mail address for this.

So for example your e-mail address is: info@thecloudadmin.eu and don’t want to use this for the download form where you have to fill in your address.

So you will fill in info+download@thecloudadmin.eu

What wil happen is that the mail is delivered to your info@thecloudadmin.eu, but now you can easily filter on this mails. And move them to a special folder, or even delete the mails right away.

Activate Plus Addressing on your Microsoft 365 tenant

You can only activate it tenant wide.

You first have to have the Exchange PowerShell module installed, the following article will help you with this.

Then you can use the following PowerShell command to activate it on your tenant.

Set-OrganizationConfig -AllowPlusAddressInRecipients $true

How to filter on Plus Addressing

You can filter on the to: address. it will look like info+download@thecloudadmin.eu

Conclusion

I think this is a very handy solution when you give someone a e-mail where you can filter very easy on.

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