Allow specifying regex to match an e-mail address to a contact.
Everywhere where Apple offers it, I use Apple's Private Relay e-mail addresses.
However, they can't be manually generated, so for the rest, I use https://anonaddy.me. Because it offers infinite aliases, I use a different alias *every* time I give my e-mail address to someone. However, I ensure that they're all under the `@rokejulianlockhart.anonaddy.com` (`.com` and `.me` are equivalent in this case) domain so that they can be identified as me by a human. I use different aliases to combat spam, not be anonymous.
Additionally, when messaging others, I ensure that I add a sub-address with my name to their e-mail address so that they can filter all messages from me (even if I'm using a different alias for my own filtering purposes). Others use the same when communicating with me, especially family. The current identification system doesn't take sub-addresses into account whatsoever.
I should therefore be able to set RY7I0I+RY7I0R@rokejulianlockhart.anonaddy.com as an e-mail address, and beneath it add, for instance [A-Za-z0-9]+\+[A-Za-z0-9]+@rokejulianlockhart\.anonaddy\.com in another input form to ensure that Outlook Contacts identifies any (in this case sub-addressed) alias as me.
The sole current alternative is to list literal tens of thousands of aliases as myself, which is insane. It also wouldn't work, because https://anonaddy.me generates a new alias when someone else uses one, so I'd have to retroactively add those whenever someone else uses one. It also wouldn't account for sub-addresses.
Like most more powerful features of Outlook Contacts, this only *need* be visible when clicked on. Adding a button beside each e-mail address to show a form which allows the user to enter custom regex is
enough.
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