Complexities of e-mail validation logic

Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by yupper32 on Monday May 24, 2021 @05:26PM (#27269922)

I honestly don't understand what you're trying to say. What's actionable about your view? You going to call up every business that doesn't accept your email and tell them their programmers suck? Businesses like this are never going away. It's a losing battle.

Instead you can just get a big name .com email and call it a day. Live your life without trying to make some statement about email standards.

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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by sellyme on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:57PM (#27272171)

> You going to call up every business that doesn't accept your email and tell them their programmers suck?

No, because it's not 1993, but I absolutely do use the contact forms or bug reporter for any website that doesn't accept my email. Most of them fix it, because it's objectively a bug caused by their non-compliant code.

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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by oarsinsync on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:13AM (#27273344)

I completely agree with the pragmatic response, and not only encourage it, but do this myself too. It is absolutely the correct advice in the situation.

However. I completely disagree with the conclusion “The problems you run into are on you.”

I didn’t create the problem by having the audacity to be from a different country.

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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by vorpalhex on Monday May 24, 2021 @08:38PM (#27271420)

We should totally shame developers/businesses who don't accept valid emails, just as we should continue shaming those with insane password policies or insecure practices.

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Re:Complexities of e-mail validation logic by dntrkv on Monday May 24, 2021 @07:49PM (#27271072)

This conversation reminds me of the 0.00001% of people that browse the internet with JS disabled and then complain about how so many sites don't work for them.

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