https://github.com/ryanburnette/node-reduce-email-address

https://github.com/ryanburnette/node-reduce-email-address

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ryanburnette/node-reduce-email-address
• Owner: ryanburnette
• Created: 2018-02-20T00:41:42.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-02-22T19:14:53.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-19T19:52:25.771Z (3 months ago)
• Size: 1.95 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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# Reduce Email Address

## Concept

Dots and anything after a + are ignored in Gmail addresses.

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html

The most useful case is figuring out that multiple differetiated addresses are actually the same

effective address. For example, `[email protected]` and `[email protected]` are the same effective address

of `[email protected]`.

There are some other services that ignore dots.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/36125463/2535178

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/01/dots_in_gmail_addresses_what_happens_if_you_leave_out_the_period.html

The Wikipedia page has a good breakdown of the email address spec from RFC[something or rather].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address

Maybe a library that returns the base email address as well as the one provided would be helpful.

## Name

This needs a better name.

## Usage

```javascript

const Email = require('effective-email-address')

// Gmail

let x = '[email protected]'

Email.parse(x)

// { provider: 'gmail', provided: '[email protected]', effective: '[email protected]', extra: 'test' }

// iCloud

let y = '[email protected]'

Email.parse(y)

// { provider: 'icloud', provided: '[email protected]', effective: '[email protected] }

// Facebook

let z = '[email protected]'

Email.parse(z)

// { provider: 'facebook', provided: '[email protected]', effective: '[email protected] }

```

## Contribute

This is a good project to collaborate on because there are many services that handle things differently and it would be nice

to have all the logic in one place.

## Not Yet

This isn't a library yet. Just an idea.