mailcheck
check-if-email-exists
mailcheck | check-if-email-exists | |
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8 | 14 | |
7,950 | 4,142 | |
0.0% | 1.1% | |
0.0 | 8.7 | |
almost 2 years ago | 5 days ago | |
JavaScript | Rust | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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mailcheck
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Email Validation Logic is Wrong (2021)
Not an "instead of" approach, but the best thing I'd implemented when running an ecom site was a typo detector that prompted people to fix their email if it looked wrong, like "[email protected]", "Did you mean [email protected]?".
At the time I used "mailcheck": https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck
There appears to be a more modern implementation here: https://github.com/ZooTools/email-spell-checker
It reduced the amount of badly entered emails more than any other approach I tried.
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Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex
It misses the very common mistake of typing a comma instead of a dot.
Otherwise, yeah, most people would be better served by a library that detects domain typos like https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck than spending time on regexes.
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Ruby's Email Address Regexp
The most helpful thing I've used in the real world is something that looks for common typographical errors, even if the email is technically valid.
Like, if the user types "[email protected]", it pops a dialogue asking "Did you mean "[email protected]". But lets them keep what they typed, or do a different fix if needed.
I found some JS called "mailcheck": https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck
There are updated clones that use react, vue, etc, instead of jquery.
With a working ecommerce site, this improved the percentage of correct emails more than anything else I tried, and I had tried many things. Because it's a bad situation when you've taken someone's money and have nothing other than a shipping address to contact them if something goes wrong (bad shipping address, out of stock situation, etc).
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Check If Email Exist
I somewhat lol'd when the demo allowed "[email protected]" just fine. Guess kickstarter isn't using mailcheck anymore. Looks like it's an open issue:
https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck/issues/179
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Some useful regular expressions for programmers
I suppose it depends on what we mean by validate. Running an ecommerce site, I got a lot of mileage out of prompting the customer to fix emails that "looked wrong". We allowed them to proceed if they wanted. A really common one was "[email protected]" when "[email protected]" was wanted. We used a slightly modified version of https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck and found it to be really useful.
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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
It does work well. I used a customized version of https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck on an ecomm website and the amount of bounces due to typos went way down.
check-if-email-exists
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Looking for help in GPL project
The point is not about ideological debates, making money from GPL software is purely a practical business decision. Many people are doing it, see e.g. https://reacher.email/ (written in Rust btw).
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Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?
I started with open-source.
I initially created https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists, after some years it got to ~50 stars and nice overall feedback, that's when I thought of a SaaS wrapper on top of it.
So a possible path is "idea -> open-source -> monetize". I find the first arrow to be easier to execute than a direct idea to monetization leap.
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I’m curious what everyone uses for data validation and hygiene.
We forked (this repository)[https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists] and made a few modifications.
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
I run an open-source [1] email verification API, called Reacher. I managed to hit 10k ARR this year (1st year).
It's written in Rust, self-hostable, and does not use a DB of emails (like some competitors do).
Landing page: https://reacher.email.
[1]: https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists
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Hacker News top posts: Jul 2, 2021
Check If Email Exists\ (205 comments)
- Check If Email Exists
- Check if an email address exists without sending any email, written in Rust.
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Check If Email Exist
GitHub issues like this one warm my heart:
https://github.com/reacherhq/check-if-email-exists/issues/91
Identifying something that needs doing, especially when you have no idea how to do it, is a bold skill.
Too often have I seen engineers be reluctant to open an issue because they don’t know how to implement it, technically. I still do it, myself. If you need it then you’ll find a way.
The converse is also true: losing focus by filing tasks and procrastinating on features because you know how to build them, not because you actually need them to move your business / project forward.
What are some alternatives?
parsemail - Hanami fork of https://github.com/DusanKasan/parsemail
react-mailcheck - React component for the mailcheck library.
app - Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.
AnonAddy - Anonymous email forwarding
deep-email-validator - Validates regex, typos, disposable, dns and smtp
rofi-emoji - Emoji selector plugin for Rofi
SimpleLogin - The SimpleLogin back-end and web app
deltachat-core-rust - Delta Chat Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop apps, bindings and bots 📧
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
pen.el - Pen.el stands for Prompt Engineering in emacs. It facilitates the creation, discovery and usage of prompts to language models. Pen supports OpenAI, EleutherAI, Aleph-Alpha, HuggingFace and others. It's the engine for the LookingGlass imaginary web browser.