I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

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    11 months ago

    The only useful email validation is “can I get an MX from that” and “does it understand what I’m saying in that SMTP”. Anything else is someone that have too much free time.

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      11 months ago

      It’s easier to Google “email regex [language]” and copy the first result from stack overflow.

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        11 months ago

        Definitely a timesaver. Much faster to get incorrect email validation that way then to try building it yourself.

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          11 months ago

          Skip the building step and go straight to pulling your hair out over why it’s not working! Efficiency!

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        11 months ago

        That probably lead to this exchange.

        Stack Overflow is useful, but…it needs more than a little parsing for useful answers.

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        11 months ago

        I know (hope) you’re being facetious, because the objectively best way to do email validation is to send a fuckin email to the provided address.

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        11 months ago

        To be valid, the email just has to match [anything@anything]. ,🙃@localhost can be perfect legal if localhost supports utf8 in usernames.