iPadOS Mail Settings does not accept my mail address anymore

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SevenSystems

Reminds me of the countless websites (including my bank's) that tell me that my email address (the first letter of the alphabet, then the fifth letter of the alphabet, then the ätt-Sümbol, then the English word for the German word 'Systeme') is "invalid" because some moron tried to be extra smart and hard-coded a list of "valid" TLDs back in the 70s 🤦‍♂️

(obviously, that was not some moron working at the bank, but some "down-the-foodchain" moron who worked on some kind of FRAMEWORK that they use or that a FRAMEWORK IN A FRAMEWORK IN A FRAMEWORK uses, because piling frameworks on top of each other is how software is "developed" these days 😉)

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uncledave

I suspect that the Apple Mail app is treating the password change using the same code as creating a new account entry. And it may be performing some interaction with the server to confirm that your account is valid. You might check your mail server log for the time when you tried to update the password, to see if it failed to handle some query from Apple.

SevenSystems

@tja said:
Yes, another common problem are subdomains which use "+" instead of "."

So, for a [email protected], you can often use arbitrary [email protected] addresses, but equally valid and RFC conform are [email protected], if your provider offers those.

Lots and lots of webpages simply deny the "+" version.

Yes I've seen that too.

A funny "hybrid" of this problem is when a website does accept '+', but fails to realize that [email protected] and [email protected] are the same email address and then let me create 100 separate user accounts using the same (a+*@a.com) email account 😁

NeuM

Clarification: It's not Apple spying on you, it's your elected and unelected "overlords". Apple itself simply has to comply with the laws everywhere they operate.

wim

@SevenSystems - if that was a valid email address in your earlier post you might want to edit the post to remove it, or at least put spaces around the @. Bots scan forums such as this to harvest email addresses constantly. You probably have outstanding spam protection, but there's no need to make it even harder.

SevenSystems

@wim said:
@SevenSystems - if that was a valid email address in your earlier post you might want to edit the post to remove it, or at least put spaces around the @. Bots scan forums such as this to harvest email addresses constantly. You probably have outstanding spam protection, but there's no need to make it even harder.

It's part of my cowboy attitude! 🤠 (seriously, I don't think any of those 'magical measures' like putting space around the @, replacing the @ by an image etc. help at all anymore these days).

wim

@SevenSystems said:

@wim said:
@SevenSystems - if that was a valid email address in your earlier post you might want to edit the post to remove it, or at least put spaces around the @. Bots scan forums such as this to harvest email addresses constantly. You probably have outstanding spam protection, but there's no need to make it even harder.

It's part of my cowboy attitude! 🤠 (seriously, I don't think any of those 'magical measures' like putting space around the @, replacing the @ by an image etc. help at all anymore these days).

No, I don't either. That's why my first suggestion was to remove it.

Why make it easy for them to associate an email address with your forum handle and all the information in every post you've made here, including your company name, country of birth, country of current residence, health status, domain of your servers, etc.

But that's just me, the guy that had to spend 30 years coaching dumb tech executives why they get so much highly tailored spam (while they still blamed me for it). 😉

SevenSystems

@wim said:

@SevenSystems said:

@wim said:
@SevenSystems - if that was a valid email address in your earlier post you might want to edit the post to remove it, or at least put spaces around the @. Bots scan forums such as this to harvest email addresses constantly. You probably have outstanding spam protection, but there's no need to make it even harder.

It's part of my cowboy attitude! 🤠 (seriously, I don't think any of those 'magical measures' like putting space around the @, replacing the @ by an image etc. help at all anymore these days).

No, I don't either. That's why my first suggestion was to remove it.

Why make it easy for them to associate an email address with your forum handle and all the information in every post you've made here, including your company name, country of birth, country of current residence, health status, etc.

But that's just me, the guy that had to spend 30 years coaching dumb tech executives why they get so much highly tailored spam (while they still blamed me for it). 😉

Done!

(When I'm bored, I just randomly reply to emails in my SPAM folder, with my full normal business email address, and pretend I'm interested in the offers, just to keep the spammers busy. I've been doing this for decades and I've never seen a negative impact on my life (I do have lots of negative impacts on my life in recent years, but they're all clearly unrelated to my replying to spammers 😉)))