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I wish people would stop posting that. Yes, that covers most (though not all) of the RFC definitions of what constitutes an email address, but in practice you o
by _dan 17y ago
I wish people would stop posting that. Yes, that covers most (though not all) of the RFC definitions of what constitutes an email address, but in practice you only want to accept a tiny subset of those.
- statictype 17y agoCurious: Why would you want to accept only a tiny subset of those? What do you gain by that?
- _dan 17y agoWell, the really simple example is the string "postmaster". It is a perfectly legitimate email address, and almost always deliverable. But rarely something you want to actually accept.