.localhost Domains

When Apple's MobileMe came out I snagged the localhost@me.com email address, thinking how clever I was. But because filtering tools weren't as good back then I was never able to use it because of the truly massive amount of spam and test emails I'd get.

Thanks for the laugh. I wonder what test@gmail.com gets hahaha

For anyone unaware, the domain 'example.com' is specifically reserved for the purpose of testing, so you don't have to worry about some rando reading emails sent to "test@gmail.com"

I don't get it. What does gmail.com have to do with example.com?

Is a public service announcement. If you’re using test@gmail.com to actually test something, you should probably be using test@example.com. Not everyone knows that example.com exists for these purposes.

That is of course unless you really intend to send an email to someone at test@gmail.com.