Can Google Apps Group email addresses and aliases have plus signs and periods?

Question

Do Google Apps group email addresses and email aliases support plus signs and arbitrary periods in addresses, like normal Gmail addresses do?

For example, if I have a group email address (e.g. one that I'm using as an alias) called [email protected], will emails sent to [email protected] or [email protected] go through to the group email address?

If I have an alias [email protected], can I use [email protected] or [email protected] in the same fashion?

Vidar S. Ramdal · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-12 09:17:03Z

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Plus signs: Yes.

Groups: I just tested sending an email to [email protected], and the message came through allright.
Aliases: Successfully tested sending an email to [email protected].

Arbitrary periods: No.

Groups: Test message to [email protected] is returned with a Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently message
Aliases: Test message to [email protected] does not seem to be delivered.

answered Nov 11, 2014 at 9:38

Vidar S. Ramdal

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Just tried adding a member with a plus sign to a Google Group and it failed: "[email protected]" at position 1 invalid: These characters are not allowed: +
– joehanna
Oct 26, 2018 at 5:10
@joehanna Yes, but this is about valid group addresses, not addresses of group members.
– Vidar S. Ramdal
Oct 26, 2018 at 5:28
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My bad. I figured he was referring to member email addresses when he mentioned "email addresses" twice in the title and description.
– joehanna
Oct 26, 2018 at 7:03
@joehanna Good point, I have made an attempt at clarifying the title.
– Vidar S. Ramdal
Oct 26, 2018 at 7:34
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for plus signs in aliases, is this the default behavior or is it something that must be enabled first? it doesn't seem to be working in my organization. i tried to send an email to [email protected] but i didn't receive anything at [email protected]
– iSWORD
Nov 1, 2018 at 15:30

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