8K views · Oct 21, 2011 · 39:42 · 3 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2011–2021
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: 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.
“There is is awesome talk about E-Mail by Ricardo Signes”HN comment, 2021
“There is is awesome talk about E-Mail by Ricardo Signes”
Awesome, hilarious talk on email; first five minutes are Perl-specific
There is is awesome talk about E-Mail by Ricardo Signes: this video The first 5 minutes are perl specific, but the rest is email and just hilarious.
“does a good job of scaring anyone thinking of writing an SMTP client or server”
Talk showing how complicated and crazy SMTP and email are
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: this video
“excellent primer into why email addresses (and emails in general) are terrible to parse”
Primer on why email addresses are terrible to parse
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: this video
“I'll let Ricardo Signes do the talking”
Talk on how messy the email standards are
Fun is a very curious way of putting it, considering how batshit crazy IMAP is. The rest of the involved email standards are also a huge dumpster fire. I'll let Ricardo Signes do the talking: this video
