Most people think an email address is just a username and a domain. It is a lot more than that. This covers structure, rule, edge case, and security trap worth knowing about.
  • zerofk@lemmy.zip
    14·
    8 hours ago

    “Gmail ignores dots entirely in the local part. This is not an RFC standard. It is Gmail-specific behavior.”

    Google does this all the time. They ignore parts of a spec, and by their sheer scale cause problems for other software. I’ve seen this first hand in their fonts and PDFs. I don’t know if it’s arrogance or maliciousness, but it’s one more reason for me to dislike them.