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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 hours ago

worst thing is, the regex to check email has been available for decades and it's fine with apostrophies

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 hours ago

Well, and remember: If in doubt, send them an e-mail. You probably want to do that anyways to ensure they have access to that mailbox.

You can try to use a regex as a basic sanity check, so they've not accidentally typed a completely different info into there, but the e-mail standard allows so many wild mail addresses, that your basic sanity check might as well be whether they've typed an @ into there.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

The regexes are written to comply with RFC 5332 and 6854

They are well defined and you can absolutely definitively check whether an address is allowable or not.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322

this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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