I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    23·
    10 months ago

    You can use symbols like [ ] . { } ~ = | $ in the local-part (bit before the @) of email addresses. They’re all perfectly valid but a lot of email validators reject them. You can even use spaces as long as it’s using quotation marks, like

    "hello world"@example.com

    A lot of validators try to do too much. Just strip spaces from the start and end, look for an @ and a ., and send an email to it to validate it. You don’t really care if the email address looks valid; you just care whether it can actually receive email, so that’s what you should be testing for.

    • itsralC@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      Not even a dot: TLDs are valid email domains. joe@google is a correct address.

      • PoolloverNathan@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        A lot of providers support plus‑aliasing, although it‌’‌s usually in a company‌’‌s best interest to block plus‑aliases.

        • dan@upvote.auEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          + symbols aren’t always used for aliasing though, and companies that strip them out can break the email address. There’s no guarantee that dan+foo@example.com is the same person as dan@example.com.

          I have a catchall domain and used to use email addresses like shopping+amazon@example.com with a Sieve rule to filter it into a “shopping” folder, but these days I just do amazon@example.com without the category or filtering.