The registration process doesn’t validate (bad)email addresses resulting in non_recuperable accounts

    • A_A@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      My concern is more with the involuntary trashing of the namespace : an account registration should be dropped if not validated after a certain amount of time.

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          1 year ago

          Please, can someone (lemmyist) with an account on GitHub do this … as I have no knowledge about it 🙏

          Maybe the request for improvement (to be raised on GitHub) could be as such :

          Lemmy account registration should be dropped if not validated after a certain amount of time. Old databases should be revised. To be applied only where an email is required for registration.
          Edit : Better yet : the registration page should not drop until successful registration

          Please be so kind to reply here after you raise it 👍

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    There really isn’t a reliable way to “validate” email addresses other than to try sending email to them.

    An email address has two parts, separated by the @ sign: the “local part” and the domain. The domain has to follow the rules of DNS, but there are astonishingly few hard rules for the local part.

    A validator can check that the domain resolves — that there’s an A or MX record for it in DNS — but it can’t do much about the part before the @ sign.

    Whether the local part is correct or not depends on the actual behavior of the mail server for the domain; which means that, without actually trying to send email to it, it can’t really be tested.

    • A_A@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I did contact him inside this post, now I realize it’s a problem for each and every instances !

  • philip@kbin.chat
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    1 year ago

    @A_A Thanks for letting me know about the issue. I ran into the same issue with my gmail, but it worked with every other email I had, so thought it was just a one off.
    I will look more into it. See if switching to a different email provider fixes the issue.