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Email

https://www.caniemail.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40280490

Regex to validate email: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#valid-e-mail-address

Email explained from first principles - https://explained-from-first-principles.com/email/

Falsehoods programmers believe about email - https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32671959

Why don’t we do email verification in reverse? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32537565

https://useplaintext.email/

Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses - https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150

Transactional email:

  • Automated.
  • Sent after the user performs an action, or some event occurs (eg a product ships).
  • May be expected by the user.
  • May not need to have an unsubscribe link.

There are two ways to send emails: SMTP or API.

Validation​

https://www.abstractapi.com/guides/html-email-validation

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