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I once scanned many millions of emails to see what kind of "strange" addresses people are using. Everyone uses "@one-or-more-label.tld"; the only ones that didn
by Beltalowda 4y ago
I once scanned many millions of emails to see what kind of "strange" addresses people are using. Everyone uses "@one-or-more-label.tld"; the only ones that didn't were bad spam scripts.
For all practical purposes for public services, it's a "truth", with the biggest real-world exception being "user@localhost" and such for local email delivery (or email delivery inside your network).
- lbriner 4y agoIt depends which email addresses you are talking about. Email works with local addresses and mail relays will cleanup any incoming destinations without a host or domain name to be routed to whoever handles local mailboxes.