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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by 3np on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:53AM (#27265850)
How about not doing any pre-validation (save for whitespace stripping) and have a validation e-mail (which you should require anyway) take care of any typos?

With precious dev time, you can do better by doing less.

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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by edoceo on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:28PM (#27266344)
You risk sending a junk message tho, which affects your sender-spam score with other providers.

I just make folks email me first.

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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by jacobobryant on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:24PM (#27267149)
I do the validation email, works great. Just be sure to protect the sign up form with some type of bot detection (I use recaptcha, but simpler methods are fine for most sites).
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