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I found this talk by Ricardo Signes on email parsing to be an excellent primer into why email addresses (and emails in general) are terrible to parse: http://yo
by k33l0r 13y ago
I found this talk by Ricardo Signes on email parsing to be an excellent primer into why email addresses (and emails in general) are terrible to parse: http://youtu.be/JENdgiAPD6c http://youtu.be/JENdgiAPD6c
- nly 13y agoInformative and entertaining, thanks.
- old-gregg 13y agoYep. I'd like to add that some ESPs have their own additional restrictions on mailbox names, plus it's usually helpful to verify the existence of the domain part (DNS) because people make mistakes all the time. We (Mailgun) have a free service which does all of these things: http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-web-forms/ http://blog.mailgun.com/post/free-email-validation-api-for-w...
- Sami_Lehtinen 13y agoIt's also trival to contact recipient STMP server and check if it accepts rcpt to.