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Gmail is a fairly common mail host. Doing what you suggest for ‘@gmail.com’ addresses would be an easy solution. You could also make the case that Google shou

Gmail is a fairly common mail host. Doing what you suggest for ‘@gmail.com’ addresses would be an easy solution. You could also make the case that Google should have a free library for most common languages that does this for you. It would improve the safety of their users immensely. I may, however, be somewhat biased as I am the frequent recipient of email from weird services that some other chucklehead keeps signing up for even though he has yet to get past email verification as he doesn’t own the address.

shkkmo 9y ago
> You could also make the case that Google should have a free library for most common languages that does this for you. It would improve the safety of their users immensely. Please don't. I don't want an official library to exist to facilitate people harvesting and selling my email address without me knowing the source of the leak. > I may, however, be somewhat biased as I am the frequent recipient of email from weird services that some other chucklehead keeps signing up for even though he has yet to get past email verification as he doesn’t own the address. And you have existing accounts with all of these services? Or how does this relate to service providers striping dots when checking uniqueness? You should report those emails as spam. If you never verified the email address they have no right to continue to send emails to you.