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Email Hates the Living
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A lightning-style conference talk by Ricardo Signes about the horrors of email: its protocols, formats and decades of accumulated quirks. It is delivered with a humorous horror theme to show why handling email correctly is harder than it looks.
HN points to it whenever someone underestimates how hard email parsing, validation or building a mail client really is.
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