This is pure gold! Check out the regular expression for an RFC822 email address validation. I’m not going to paste it here, being concerned that it will open the gates of hell or something, but here is a sneak preview of about the first third or so.
Tag: email
500 miles email limit
I’ve read this story a while ago, but this is a beautiful piece of the system administration reality, so here it goes again.
“We’re having a problem sending email out of the department.”
“What’s the problem?” I asked.
“We can’t send mail more than 500 miles,” the chairman explained.
I choked on my latte. “Come again?”
“We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles from here,” he repeated. “A
little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther.”
More stories here.
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MailWise – Email for Exchange & Hotmail
If you are one of those poor souls stuck with MS Exchange (like yours truly), here is one application you would absolutely love on your Android device – MailWise. This app replaces your default email client with all the same functionality, except it makes those horribly long, backward-quoted emails and disclaimerified signatures much much shorter. Like this:
It’s one of those things that you constantly try to learn to ignore, but which comes back to annoy you on a daily basis. And now, it’s solved. Awesome!