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Ricardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説

yapcasia · 7.9K views · 2011-10-21 · 39:42

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Overview

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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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.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2011–2021

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Networking & internet infrastructurePython, Ruby & scripting languages
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smtpemail parsingemail validationperlinternet standards

What people said

JoyfulPanda · 2021-05 · Strong recommendation

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.

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k33l0r · 2013-09 · Recommendation

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]

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AngryParsley · 2011-11 · Recommendation

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]

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