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I've read this more than once, and it basically always boils down to: "The only way to verify an email address is to send an email to it." In my opinion, the o
by zamalek 5y ago
I've read this more than once, and it basically always boils down to: "The only way to verify an email address is to send an email to it."
In my opinion, the optimal validation is soft validation: "your email address doesn't look right, continue with it?"
- throw0101a 5y ago> In my opinion, the optimal validation is soft validation: "your email address doesn't look right, continue with it?" And then hope the server's e-mail workflow can handle subaddressing because you entered in something like "username+service@gmail.com". Seems like a lot of folks don't like '+', even though it's been part of the e-mail system since the 1980s.