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10 Dec 2022, 10:12 PM | #1 |
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is mail@ considered not valid as a local-part
Hi,
I recently asked for my email to be changed on change.org. I wanted to change it from my my_name@my_domain.tld to mail@my_domain.tld I have been doing this on and off for years using mail@ for mailing lists and general logons that aren't personal and keeping my_name@ for friends and 'real' people. I find it helps me sort my inbox. However change.org came back and told me that whilst they can make the change, they wanted to warn me that mail@ isn't considered valid as a local-part by a lot of systems due to its generic name. I guess this is important to change.org given they are a petitions website. Has anyone else come across this? |
11 Dec 2022, 02:30 AM | #2 | |
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I'll admit that there are a lot of old rules out there that I don't know because they're irrelevant to actual, real world situations today. But what I can say for sure is that the numbers below show how many users on each one of my servers have a mail@ address, and I have zero complaints about them not receiving email:
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11 Dec 2022, 02:51 AM | #3 |
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Wow - thanks for going to the trouble of getting that info.
I’ve been using mail@ for the better part of 20 years with no issue as well. Thanks for confirming. |
15 Dec 2022, 06:44 AM | #4 |
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No, that's not a forbidden local-part. RFC 5322 is what I would refer to.
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16 Dec 2022, 04:58 AM | #5 |
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Location: USA
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I suspect you might have issues with a generic address like info@ or mail@ being more likely to be classified as spam by some systems, and on the other side of the coin it will attract a lot more spam being sent to it. One thing I have done, that seems to work like a charm, is just choose some other ficitious name that sounds legit but doesn't reveal anything about you. For example, if your name is donald use george@ You will know in an instant that email coming in isn't someone who knows you.
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