Subj : emailval.js accepts incomplete email addresses
To   : Digital Man
From : echicken
Date : Sun Sep 01 2024 02:49 am

  Re: emailval.js accepts incomplete email addresses
  By: Digital Man to echicken on Sat Aug 31 2024 18:39:21

 DM> I think it'd be more user-friendly if the script only supports Internet
 DM> mail (which in this case, I think it's expected) and it rejected (with a
 DM> friendly message) any invalid Internet mail addresses, just in case the

Or it can just say:

"Sending validation email to the@address.you.typed.in"

and offer the user a way to correct the address if they see that it's wrong. 
I only say this because properly validating an email address often goes awry and either bad addresses are accepted or legit ones are rejected.

 DM> typoed or assumed a FidoNet or QWKnet address could be used (maybe they
 DM> can?). I don't know, I didn't actually write the script in question.

It might as well allow for validation over Fido/QWK, and that'd be another two formats to check for (or not).

It's easy enough to get a throwaway internet email address (eg. by signing up on another Synchronet board) so demanding this net type isn't really the gatekeeping measure it seems. This is why I ask for a scan of government-issued photo ID, and a picture of the user holding said ID up next to their face, and have them fax in a signed contract before I allow them to use my B.B.S.

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