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farfatchedtoday at 12:34 AM1 replyview on HN

Could they have consciously chosen to remove that functionality?

E.g. to simplify code, or if they wanted all mails to have a domain (if, for example, they wanted to integrate with reputation systems that were domain oriented)?


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jeffbeetoday at 12:39 AM

Based on the incredibly basic bounce message, I suspect the problem is that the frontend eats the address before it even gets to delivery.

To your question, yes any product decision is possible, but enterprise/government people are surprisingly demanding about this stuff working because they have extremely weird requirements for routing mail to and through legacy systems. So I bet this still works at the mailer level and is broken in the UI.

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