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Show HN: I built a tool to validate temp email

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1 pointedricj13 comments

Can you explain how the backend works? Will it block Apple's 'hide my email' feature from functioning with valid @icloud.com addresses, or similar 'valid' domains with potentially disposable email addresses?

My team maintains a list of disposable domains actively, if the target domain couldn’t match existing records, we will verify its DNS record (coming soon) :PPP

> Will it block Apple's 'hide my email' feature from functioning with valid @icloud.com

(not OP) No, but you can block those with a regex pretty easily.

Developers and regex on email is always a terrible idea. So many fail to understand what the RFC allows (virtually anything). Can't tell you how often websites will reject an email address with a two-character localpart :-(

For such cases (refer to @icloud.com), no idea if we should take it so seriously…

For now, our goal is to detect disposable mails from online free providers.

Yeah I can relate to that... some don't even realize TLDs longer than 3 chars exist (my primary domain uses a 4 char TLD)

Great domain name. This is already a crowded market. Do you undertake to not store email addresses tested?

Yes. We have planned to only receive domain as input so it would be secure and privacy :)

Just updated! We don't need your full email address as input, now instead, we only accept your target domain name.

You posted this two days ago already.

Post again after a few performance improvements XD

From the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

Anyway, sometimes it's better to write a blog post about an intersting problem you solved to build your project, but it's important that it's interesting.

:P Oh thanks a lot! Just know about this point!

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