The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account

Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by omnibrain on Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:13AM (#24361851)

I have something similar when I used contact@<firstname>.<lastname>.name

There were various ways in which that failed.

1. ".name" was pretty new by then, so some frontends did not accept it

2. some frontends objected to the third level of my domain part, accepting third levels only in such cases as the well know. ".co.uk" for example

3. some frontends let me sign up, but something in the backend failed, I can only suspect if it was the ".name" tld or my third level, but I never got any mails after signing up

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by Sebb767 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:40AM (#24363422)

> 2. some frontends objected to the third level of my domain part, accepting third levels only in such cases as the well know. ".co.uk" for example

This is actually not such a rare edge case. My university, for example, uses <name>@students.<university>.de . So there's really not much excuse for not handling this.

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by lorenzhs on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:31AM (#24362299)

The number of sites that send mail to "[email protected]" when you give them "[email protected]" is staggering, too. It's a mystery to me why they would ever want to do that, but it happens a lot.

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by 0xFluegel on Thursday September 03, 2020 @06:33AM (#24362628)

I can see how that happens immediatly...

    var domain = addr.split(['@','.']).take_last(2)
    var tld = domain[1]
    // check TLD against wacky rules...

See, boss, it's easy. What's next?

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by snet0 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:03AM (#24363139)

It's also possibly just some arcane regex incantation that someone implemented 12 years ago and nobody has been able to decipher it since.

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