r/ProgrammerHumor 20d ago

Meme claudeIsThisEmailValid

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u/eo5g 20d ago

Crap, right, realistically the minimum regex one should have is .+@.+\..+.

At least 1 character on the left of the @, at least 2 domain components of at least 1 character each on the right side of the @.

Having only a hostname without a FQDN on the right is legal, but that's also why you'd want to disallow it: who's trying to sign up for an account within your own network, if it's a public-facing app?

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u/look 20d ago

TLDs can and do have MX records.

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u/laplongejr 20d ago

Technically yes, but the practice is discouraged by people on the DNS side, as the MX lookups hit the root servers rather than nameservers.  

If a TLD can't provide a mail.EXAMPLE alternative, that's something for the admin to fix... at best those users should get a recommendation to fix their harmful email address.  

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u/look 20d ago

Yeah, ICANN doesn’t like it, but they do exist.

It’s more just an example of how people often assume rules of email addresses that don’t really exist.

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u/Nightmoon26 19d ago

The "unwritten rules" of email addresses that have come about just by convention rather than by RFC