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About exotic email address
By Konijntje, history, 6 years ago, In English

If you clicked my profile, you can know that my e-mail account registered in Codeforces is [email protected], which is both valid(according to RFC822) and quite exotic. (I personally like that term where I got response from SPOJ Forum, when I said that their system cannot my valid e-mail address.)

You might feel some anime addict bought a strange e-mail address, and yes it is.

I think that some of system do not see this as valid e-mail address, most of reason is that life contains 4 character, which makes lots of inconvenience situation to me.

For example, my university mail system is configured to receive mail only matching regex /^[0-9a-zA-Z]([-_\.]?[0-9a-zA-Z])*@[0-9a-zA-Z]([-_\.]?[0-9a-zA-Z])*\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3}$/i, which cannot accept e-mail address containing + character, life domain, and so on.

I think I cannot receive an e-mail including Codeforces. My another email account [email protected], equally configured with [email protected] can receive mail. I did not noticed it quite long, but once I tried to log in polygon, it says me to check e-mail inbox, and I cannot receive an e-mail. (Sure, I checked a spam mail box)

I just want to ask Codeforces to check this issue, and if you are developing e-mail-related system, just want you to think a little about weird anime addict using exotic e-mail address using [email protected]. (You can use RFC822 standard anyway)

UPD: I think issue in codeforces was fixed. Thanks in advance.

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if i learned one thing while writing software its to never try to check an email agains a regex or any other method to recognise them... just send a mail and let the user verify that he got it. Everything else will propably fail for someone earlier or later...

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    And I hope every system works like that :(

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      i know almost no websystem which not checks against any kind of pattern... and to make it even worse sometimes stuff like this happens:what?

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Fucking weeb.

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    You're welcome.

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    Who's that girl in your profile pic?

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      She is Akemi Homura, who is protagonist of anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

      She has borderline disorder.

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Auto comment: topic has been updated by Konijntje (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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Do you think I should start watching animes to reach 3200+?

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