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Do GMail et al actually prevent you from sending to and receiving from these zany addresses? Or merely prevent you from creating one @gmail.com?
by BenjiWiebe 5y ago
Do GMail et al actually prevent you from sending to and receiving from these zany addresses? Or merely prevent you from creating one @gmail.com?
- jchw 5y agoCreating one. But when you consider just how many customers are using gmail and outlook addresses, and not to mention, GSuite/fastmail/etc. addresses under custom domains, it makes more sense why rejecting @gmail.com@gmail.com is worth more than allowing some crazy e-mail feature that is effectively not used.
- not2b 5y agoThe routing features are obsolete; they go back to the days when lots of email users weren't on the Internet directly and had to use relays. They are still in the spec, yes.
- jchw 5y agoI assume it comes from similar lineage as UUCP paths. Either way, email standards are a bit ridiculous. It needs the kind of rehaul that occurred with HTML5 of looking at what email implementations actually do and pushing them in one direction. I suspect that is not happening ever, so failing that there will probably always be things in the spec that just simply don’t work across everything anymore.