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Mo Validation Mo Problems (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 87 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The best email validation is just sending an email to whatever provided by the user. If user receives an email and validates it, than its validated.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Email validation for a form should at most look for

    • at least one character
    • followed by @
    • followed by at least one character
    • followed by .
    • followed by at least two characters

    Sending an email can take a few minutes. Form validation is instant.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Which would still not be perfect because "foo@bar", "foo@[123.123.123.123]" and "💩 @[IPv6 :::1]" are all technically valid email addresses.

    It looks like the only validation that doesn't block something valid pretty much would start and end at "It has at least one @ symbol, and something on both sides".

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