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Show HN: I built a tool to validate temp email (manage.email)
1 points by edricj 704 days ago
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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?
Just updated! We don't need your full email address as input, now instead, we only accept your target domain name.
Yes. We have planned to only receive domain as input so it would be secure and privacy :)
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!