Please use a personal email. My email is ‘mail’ @ ‘my actual name’. It does not get more personal than that

But you can’t use emails starting with mail@, admin@, support@, info@, main@, etc.

Instead they advised me (3 times) to create a personal email on a service like Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, Orange, etc

  • Rolling Resistance
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    51 year ago

    Some developers prefer using half-baked regexes from stackoverflow, rather than reputable libraries for email address validation.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Hmm. Why am I mildly surprised that I can’t find anything non-regular about the syntax. There’s nested comments but that’s part of MIME quoting, not the actual address format, so it’s reasonable to not accept those in an HTML entry field because HTML is many things, but not MIME.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I don’t know why single character email addresses would fail that test, though.

          Could be that they get a huge amounts of bounces from those kinds of addresses. I’m sure at least half of Germany is using [email protected] as the go-to “I don’t wanna give out my email” address.