Plus email addresses

From time to time, you may need to add people to VOLAGIC who do not have their own email address. This might be an honorary member who occasionally still takes on Tasks for the club, or members of the U11 girls' team who run the kiosk during a home match of the women's team.

There are several ways to add these people to the system. Our recommendation: plus addresses!

What are plus addresses?

If your club has a general email address, you can use it to add additional people. For example: info@yourclub.com. By adding a "+" and any identifier after "info", you can create "new" email addresses.

info+stefan@[youremailaddress].ch
info+susi@[youremailaddress].ch
info+melanie@[youremailaddress].ch

All these emails are delivered to info@[youremailaddress].ch! This means you can create as many addresses as you like from a single email address. There are several advantages to this. If you add several people using the same email address, they will all appear as options when logging in to the Helper section. Plus addresses avoid this problem because each person has their own login details. In the example above, Stefan, Susi and Melanie each have their own login. However, all confirmation and reminder emails are sent to the same address: info@[youremailaddress].ch. You can configure your email system to sort these messages into different folders based on the identifier following the "+".

Important

Plus addresses are supported by many email providers, but not all of them. You can easily test whether your provider supports them by sending yourself an email using a plus address. If it arrives, the feature is supported.

You can find a detailed article on the subject at Cyon.