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0 pointsfiloleg2y ago0 comments

This comment just unlocked a new fear of mine.

I specifically got a custom domain and email address for any non-personal/"professional" comms, which is essentially just me@<custom-domain-featuring-my-name>.com.

At least with non-ASCII characters in passwords, while I think it is stupid to not handle those properly, I can at least see some sort of an excuse there, no matter how weak it is. All it takes to mess this up is not thinking about handling those scenarios, so I can definitely see "this issue was created due to us not thinking about this possibility or not willing to deal with handling it."

But what's even the reason to not allow sub-3-character local portions of emails? How does one even mess those up, aside from intentionally setting some triggers for less than 3 characters in local portions of email addresses?

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JoshTriplett2y ago

> But what's even the reason to not allow sub-3-character local portions of emails? How does one even mess those up, aside from intentionally setting some triggers for less than 3 characters in local portions of email addresses?

Wild guess: someone copy-pasted an incorrect email address validation regex, and different parts of the system are using different criteria for email address validation.

int_19h2y ago

FWIW I have an email that is me@...org, and I've been using it for over a decade now without a single issue despite having lots of accounts created using it.

toss12y ago

Same. I've had this 2-char email addr for nearly two decades and this is the only issue I've had, but it's a doozy. It even took their tech support days to find it. I'm still boggled that it's a problem.

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