Everyone knows what an email address is, right? (Quiz)
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The routing feature is so cursed XD
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Average
Me too.
I scored 11/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
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I lost it at the fork bomb. I mean I hit valid because there was no way it was on the and not valid, but there's no way i'd have expected that. after that I just kept guessing the most stupid answer and did pretty well
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What if we
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..? ðŸ¤Now i just need a registrar that allows emoji...
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Presumably the space between quotes is "escaped", meaning it's supposed to act like any other character.
Yeah they're processed, but not passed through.
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Let us recite the email validator’s oath:
If it has something before the
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I scored 13/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
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I scored 18/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
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12/21
are things that are considered out of current spec really "valid" though?
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Now i just need a registrar that allows emoji...
Self-host it.
People may find that weird, however.
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12/21
are things that are considered out of current spec really "valid" though?
And is it really valid if my email provider doesn't accept it? If it's not universally accepted or standard, then it doesn't matter if it's technically valid.
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I didn't understand this one. How do you have a no dot domain? Like you need to distinguish from example.com or example.wtf
Edit: do you mean if you own
.googleyou can have youremail@googleaddress?Yes, the top-level domain is still just a domain. I'm not aware of any public Internet services which are reachable from a TLD directly, and it's strongly discouraged by ICANN, but there isn't any technical limitation preventing e.g. someone at Verisign from setting up
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But they will work, and according to the spec, you have to build your system so that it can handle those cases. Obsolete doesn't mean incorrect or invalid, just a "you shouldn't do this any more".
Obsolete Syntax
Earlier versions of this standard allowed for different (usually more
liberal) syntax than is allowed in this version. Also, there have
been syntactic elements used in messages on the Internet whose
interpretation have never been documented. Though some of these
syntactic forms MUST NOT be generated according to the grammar in
section 3, they MUST be accepted and parsed by a conformant receiver.Well shit, yeah, that "MUST be accepted and parsed" is pretty explicit. That sucks. What is even the point of revising standards? How the fuck do we ever get rid of some of these bad ideas?
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I gave up when I got like 5 wrong. I've ran mail servers for decades, most of the invalid "valids" would get rejected by any mailservers I've administered.
And for a good reason.
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And is it really valid if my email provider doesn't accept it? If it's not universally accepted or standard, then it doesn't matter if it's technically valid.
The RFC is the standard.
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I got 14/21
Me too and it said that is the amount you'd get if you just picked "valid" for every response. Lmao
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I scored 14/21 on https://e-mail.wtf/ and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.
I actually died at the poop emoji one. Actually amazing awareness to test for that
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Well... like Bill Clinton said, it depends on what the definition of "is" is.
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Now i just need a registrar that allows emoji...
wrote last edited by [email protected]Any should. Any unicode is converted to alphabetical anyways, through "xn--" + a punycode conversion. Which is actually fairly important for places that don't use the Latin alphabet.
See http://xn-bdk.gay/, which is the same as http://ツ.gay/
(Someone set this up on 196 a while ago, they said they were using Namecheap)
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You shouldn’t be validating emails yourself anyway. Use a library or check for only the
@and then send an email confirmation.wrote last edited by [email protected]Use a library
Please, no. If someone wrote email address "validation" complex enough to warrant a library, then their code is almost certainly wrong.
or check for only the @ and then send an email confirmation.
Yes. Do that.
If your boss demands a more detailed check at input time, then make it display warnings, not errors, and continue to the confirmation sending step if the user chooses to ignore the warning.
