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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

Oh, and please, if you are sending email, don't make up random addresses for your app to test with. Only send mail to addresses you know are valid, and for which you have permission to send mail.

If you need to test SMTP while developing software, use a mock SMTP server that drops all outgoing email in a local directory, so you can inspect it without dumping a metric ton of email in your upstream's SMTP queue.

If you absolutely must generate unique email addresses for testing, either register a domain for that purpose and set up mail handling for it, or use the .test TLD, and have as many unique domain names as you like.

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Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

There's always at least one person who doth protest too loudly, whenever they are alerted to bad habits like these 😂

Gwenn

@sindarina
4/ Do not use "/dev/sda" or any valid volume name in an example for a formatting command.

jordan

@sindarina had to alert my company that we were sending automated emails of sensitive data to an email address at test.com before. whoever owns those domains probably has access to every secret in the country by now...

Jens Dibbern

@sindarina And, for the love of god, start using test e-mail infrastructure. It's a 10 minute job to start a greenmail container or something similar. Gazillions of postmasters are sick of seeing your junk in their logs.

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