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They scan for know domain classifiers or profanity for some reason. According to the email spec, t@t is a valid email.
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@molaram
Obv. My statement was just that whatever they are doing is superfluous, app specific use case. The email portion of the address specification is clear, anything else is fluff.
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C0D4681465ysome devs will go to the extent of doing a MX lookup to verify the domain will accept emails.
for example:
my.ass
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.asp...
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devrant.com
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C0D4681465y@molaram i know, these guys have an api to do such lookups too through https://mojodns.com/ for small scale applications.
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@SortOfTested well, the email spec also has to work for the intranet, hence t@t is valid. But in the common Internet, everything (?) works through domains, so it is valid to check those.
No need to allow 'a@b' if the dns of the service has no way to get the address of 'b' oO Or am I wrong here? I'm open to input :) -
In a word, yes.
0: you're conflating technologies. The standards define how the "common internet works," not the other way around
1: TLDs are themselves valid domain names (hence why your computer doesn't choke on localhost)
2: SMTP is an application layer protocol, as is DNS. Neither has contextual awareness of the other, email works fine on IP addresses, as does the internet. DNS is a convenience.
3: if your business logic has a rule that says only employees.example.com account holders can register, that's a separate validation rule from "is this even a valid email."
3.5: it's also a separate error message
4: your computer is a capable nameserver without any additional software or even being online
Bonus: what if I were to tell you that intranets aren't special in regards to protocols and standards. I mean, wouldn't it be cool if there were a way to connect a whole bunch of intranets together that didn't need a bunch of incompatible technologies? Whatever would we call that 😝
How is this not a valid address!
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email validation