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Tuta(nota) users, what do you think about their new setup? (tuta.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Have a look at their blog post but then please also look at this. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

how is [email protected] "more legit" than [email protected] ?

I genuinely see no factual or social difference in the domains; tuta.com is a new domain even; and in the world of E-Mail that may even be a problem in rare cases.

Realistically tuta.io is shorter than tuta.com. The .com TLD is not better than any other, and all TLDs; including gTLDs are 100% valid for email addresses. Any Software or Human entity that assumes otherwise is doing things incorrectly; and should be promptly complained about loudly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I was talking about tutanota.com users. Like I said in my first sentence, I already use tuta.io so this doesn’t really affect me. Tuta may be a new domain now, but it’s what they will be known as moving forward. So [email protected] will look more legit than [email protected] eventually when the tutanota brand is deprecated completely. I’m also not talking about machine validation, I’m talking about human validation, just as someone would be suspicious of a gmail address in a few months/years if google changed their email domain to something else today. Hell, I have a live.com email and people ask me to repeat it when I give it out because they haven’t heard of it before, not knowing it’s actually a microsoft domain that was popular in the early 2010s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As I outlined in my comment; humans attempting validation of email addresses like this using patterns and words and domains that they know about is doing things incorrectly. Guide them as bluntly or as gently as you feel is necessary and or proper to educate them on what modern email addresses can look like.

You maybe able to inform someone who might be expecting your email address to be at a common domain name that they should not make that assumption and that they should be double checking them regardless of what provider(s) they assume the person they are helping is using anyways.

Someone asking you to repeat your email address again is a GOOD THING! It means they're paying attention to inputting it into their system(s) correctly; It is mildy annoying when people assume that I use a common provider anyways, as they might inadvertently attempt to incorrectly "upgrade/update" my email address to the domain they use or know.

An example I've experienced: I owned an original @googlemail.com GMail account. Until they mothballed the @googlemail.com domain I used it in that format. Inattentive people would attempt to substitute @gmail.com. Another issue would be that My actual Username on said GMail account is a direct mispelling with one letter transposed into an incorrect position. This Misspelling is intentional, and it used to work to my advantage to dodge spambots using dictionaries to guess email IDs. Therefore for a short time people would attempt to "correct" it and I would always prefix my email address explaining they need to input it exactly as I spell it out.

I suppose when dealing with E-Mails it is simply critical to make sure they repeat it back to you before submitting it. This is simply to avoid your E-Mails being mis-delivered anyways; which in some cases can be a Massive Headache when it does happen.