Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)

Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012) by goto11 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:54AM (#31098775)

This is the sane approach. Nobody uses the bizarre address formats with quoted strings and embedded comments and whatnot. There are included in the RFC because of backwards compatibility with legacy email systems from before SMTP.

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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012) by jeroenhd on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:01PM (#31100667)

Quoted strings are actually used in the real world, though they're certainly not common.

Shitty front ends are definitely putting an end to that, though.

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Re:Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012) by xeromal on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:22PM (#31100957)

I'd say that's for the better.

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