On 02/11/2023 19.56, Chris Angelico via Python-list wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 17:47, Simon Connah <simon.n.con...@protonmail.com> wrote:
My goal is to make a simple mailing list platform. I guess I could just send
email to an address and if it bounces then I can remove it from the database.
Thing is I'm not sure how close to a real email address an email has to be in
order to be bounced. If it was completely wrong it might just swallowed up.
Every address is completely separate. There is no "closeness". Just
send email to an address.
Agreed.
However, with names that are frequently misspelled or which are
commonly-spelled slightly differently, the 'trick' is to anticipate
problems and set up aliases which forward messages to the correct address*.
eg Kelvin -> Kevlin
Niel, Neal, Neale (etc) -> Neil
(in the same way that GoodLookingGuy@mydomain -> me,
or (more likely) MailAdmin -> me)
* however, this can end-up perpetuating the mistake, rather than
correcting...
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