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Ricardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説

Ricardo Signes' YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2011 talk on the legends and horrors of email: how messy the SMTP and email standards are in practice. The first few minutes are Perl-specific, but the rest applies to anyone handling email.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN points people to it as a funny and sobering warning about why parsing, validating, or implementing email software is far harder than it looks.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
yapcasia
Topic
email protocols
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2011–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • There is is awesome talk about E-Mail by Ricardo Signes: [VIDEO] The first 5 minutes are perl specific, but the rest is email and just hilarious.

    JoyfulPanda on Hacker News · 2021-05
    In Complexities of e-mail validation logic

  • The SMTP standard is complicated and crazy. RJBS from Pobox does a good job of scaring anyone thinking of writing an SMTP client or server: [VIDEO]

    AngryParsley on Hacker News · 2011-11
    In Move over HTTP it's SMTP's Turn to Shine

  • I found this talk by Ricardo Signes on email parsing to be an excellent primer into why email addresses (and emails in general) are terrible to parse: [VIDEO]

    k33l0r on Hacker News · 2013-09
    In Email Validation Rules

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