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This is exactly why you need to normalize email addresses. The people who wrote the email RFCs just plain got it wrong, so it’s up to every SaaS site to do this
by Alex3917 9y ago
This is exactly why you need to normalize email addresses. The people who wrote the email RFCs just plain got it wrong, so it’s up to every SaaS site to do this so that they aren’t putting their users at risk. If someone is using an email with that’s the same as someone else’s except for the capitalization, it should be on them to get a new email address.
- techsin101 9y agoIn gsuite dot matters.
- HankB99 9y agoMy understanding is that the RFCs define how the Internet work so by definition, they are not wrong. You're certainly free to assert that they made a bad decision and I'm not qualified to offer an opinion on whether you are right or wrong. However since Netflix is not managing email addresses in accordance with RFC-5322 They are clearly wrong.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y ago> However since Netflix is not managing email addresses in accordance with RFC-5322 They are clearly wrong. Where are they not?
- HankB99 9y agoI was wrong. I cannot find any information that indicates that the RFC specifies that the period is not significant, only that it is allowed. In this case I suppose it is Google that is wrong.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y agoHow is Google wrong?
- HankB99 9y agoThey consider email addresses composed of different (valid) characters to be equivalent.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y agoThey do? How so?