Broken email address validation

Posted Sat January 26, 2008 5:51 pm, by Kasia T. written to PlanetFeedback

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Your email address validation is broken. + is a valid character in the user portion of the address making someone+pfb@gmail.com a completely valid email address that uses a handy feature of gmail. Unfortunately your software rejected it as invalid.

Here's a regular expression that should help:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

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Re: Broken email address validation by Angelic Princess:) Posted Sat January 26, 2008 @ 6:46 PM huh?? Reply Explanation by Jeffrey Sat January 26, 2008 @ 7:22 PM huh?.. haha by ♥Venice♥ Sun January 27, 2008 @ 2:05 AM I think that's the point. by Jeffrey Sun January 27, 2008 @ 7:49 AM I use gmail by ♥Venice♥ Sun January 27, 2008 @ 4:13 PM I use Gmail and I had no idea that you could do this. by Jeffrey Sun January 27, 2008 @ 8:27 PM Thanks, I feel better now. n/t by ♥Venice♥ Sun January 27, 2008 @ 9:30 PM