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Why the hell do you need to route the email unless you’re working on an email server? Send the email and have the user validate it. If they validate it, it’s a
by withinboredom 4y ago
Why the hell do you need to route the email unless you’re working on an email server? Send the email and have the user validate it. If they validate it, it’s a valid email. Don’t be clever, be smart.
Even if you’re working on an email server, you shouldn’t be touching that code unless it’s broken or you’re writing an implementation from scratch. In that case, treat it as an opaque blob.
- throwaway09223 4y ago> unless you’re working on an email server? We are talking about email software, inclusive of servers, clients, plugins, etc. It's literally the example I'm offering (but there are neigh infinite others) > Send the email and have the user validate it. I But I haven't proposed a problem of validating an email. Besides, even if the problem is validating an email this is not necessarily a workable answer. > Even if you’re working on an email server, you shouldn’t be touching that code unless it’s broken A lot of the arguments supporting unicode seem to boil down to acknowledging that all these things are broken, yet disregarding them because the problems exist at a more technical level than most of HN commenters are familiar with. You might not write this kind of software for a living, but some of us do and we know that these interfaces are not good.