On 2022-05-26 at 10:43:00 UTC-0400 (Thu, 26 May 2022 16:43:00 +0200)
Daniele Nicolodi via mailop <dani...@grinta.net>
is rumored to have said:
On 26/05/2022 16:34, Luis E. Muñoz via mailop wrote:
On 26 May 2022, at 6:18, Ken O'Driscoll via mailop wrote:
People should be validating email input fields as a matter of
course.
And then, do it correctly. One of my pet peeves is finding out forms
that still think that there is no such thing as a .click email
address. Tends to work better for TLDs 4 characters or less in
length.
Or that think that + is not a valid local part character...
Or -, #, &, /, etc.
Or think all domains under .com only use 3-label names.
Or think that local parts can't be more than a dozen characters long.
Validating an email address ultimately means mailing it in a way that
triggers a response which proves conscious receipt. Gross sanity checks
enforcing some formal rules (e.g. domain label length, ASCII, etc.)
before accepting an address are sensible, but there's no evidence that
anyone can deploy a perfect validator for the actual rules of email
addresses.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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