Re: Make username optional in email addresses

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On 2023-02-17 22:44:03 -0500, Valdis Kl=C4=93tnieks wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:40:05 +0000, Paul Smith said:
> > In the same way that Web browsers will "autocomplete" a URL of
> > "example.com" to "https://www.example.com", a compliant email client co=
uld
> > "autocomplete" an email address of "example.com" to "something@example.=
com"
>=20
> And how does the client know that it should auto-complete  and it isn't l=
ooking
> at a local username that happens to have a period in it?

If it's in a mailto: URI, it is simple: That needs to be globally
usable and not just locally, so mailto:example.com must be a shorthand
for mailto:[email protected], not maito:example.com@somedomain.

(Same for other situations where a complete email address is expected)

If the user is typing the name, it is ambiguous. But here you are in an
interactive situation. The MUA could for example do a DNS lookup,
consult the local address book and maybe even perform some heuristics to
choose the most likely option and still let the user override it.


> (A quick look at this mail's From: line should convince you that local pa=
rts with a
> dot in them do in fact exist. :)

Yeah, the format firstname.lastname is very common.

        hp

PS: I don't really see the value of the proposition. Like many other
people who have their own domain (and run their own mail server) I
already have lots of different mail addresses for different purposes.
Being able to specify just hjp.at instead of [email protected] (or [email protected], if
I wanted to be ultra-short) doesn't make my life simpler. On the
contrary - it would cause a lot of confusion if I gave out something
which just doesn't look like an email address.

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