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Email containing a '+' is considered invalid #3

Closed Kernald closed 11 years ago

Kernald commented 11 years ago

Emails containing the + symbol can be used to filter incoming emails, and are absolutely valid. However, GTGOnline doesn't accept them as valid (registration fails).

parinporecha commented 11 years ago

@Kernald , GTGOnline uses ur'[\.\w]{1,}[@]\w+[.]\w+' to check the validity of an email. While this is not a perfect way, it does recognize emails having a '@' and '.' in them and have valid username and domain names.

I tried to register a username with '+' on some of the providers, they didn't accept it as valid. I did find some emails having '-' and other symbols but they are the 'donotreply' ones used in mailinglists. Please can you give an example of an email of a person having '+' symbol ?

Kernald commented 11 years ago

On GMail for example: you can't create a toto+something@gmail.com. But if you send an email to toto+something@gmail.com, toto@gmail.com will receive the email. The +something part is not used during transport, but you can use it for filtering purposes for example. I usually register on websites with myemail+websitename@host.tld, to know from which site my email address has been taken.