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Re:Dotless Domains by andrewmcwatters on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:58PM (#43950955)
You should know there is a standard regular expression for validating email addresses mentioned in an RFC.
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Re:Dotless Domains by 90s_dev on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:59PM (#43950962)
I'm sure there is. And I'm sure many email servers deviate from it.
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Re:Dotless Domains by Xss3 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @11:08AM (#43954328)
The real validation is the link in the confirmation email.

Tbh though ideally you would use the most restrictive validation that exists in the mail server. If mail server accepts '@tld' you do too.

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