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I always baffles me when I encounter a service that uses a different validator for sign up than sign in. Firstly, why write this twice. Secondly, it can cause
by Meph504 6y ago
I always baffles me when I encounter a service that uses a different validator for sign up than sign in. Firstly, why write this twice. Secondly, it can cause so many headaches.
the one I run into a lot is a + in an email address.
I like to use them on sites I think will likely sell my email address so I'll do something like "my.normal.email+websitename@gmail.com"
I rarely have trouble signing up with this email address, nor verifying it, but then you go to login and splat.
but not properly escaping the lastname of "true" just seems way to basic for a service as large as icloud.
- jakub_g 6y agoThe "+ is not valid character in email" is damn annoying indeed. Too many websites do this dumb "validation". Re: validating login/signup, I never had an issue immediately. However in practice it happens often when there's one validator but it changes over time during a big rewrite. So you sign up, all works, rewrite lands, can't log in anymore.
- Meph504 6y agoI've had it happen immediately a lot. Ubisoft and jimmyjohns both had issues with it. I love when people argue that it isn't valid even after you contact support. Generally a sign I don't want to do business with them.
- chadlavi 6y agoI think some companies might do this because they know they can't sell that email address as easily
- zaik 6y agoOr they could just strip of the part after the "+", especially with gmail addresses.
- trav4225 6y agoYeah, I run into validation issues all the time with hyphens in domain names... :-P
- tdeck 6y agoAce Hardware accepts a plus in the email, but then wasn't sending me a confirmation for my pickup order. When I contacted support, I was told my email on file was FOO%2Bace@gmail.com.
- evanb 6y agoI bought my own domain and use whatever-service@mydomain.com to avoid exactly this problem.
- thepratt 6y agoDo you have all the mailboxes merge into 1, like a rewrite to email+alias? Or do you connect to a new mailbox per service?
- evanb 6y agoI have them all merge into 1, but my mail software can still filter / whatever else based on the To field. Also if someone sells my email address I can just prevent that one from merging and send it into a black hole.