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phpList / phplist3

Fully functional Open Source email marketing manager for creating, sending, integrating, and analysing email campaigns and newsletters.
https://www.phplist.org
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e-mail address username-@example.com marked as invalid #984

Closed pve-paymorrow closed 1 year ago

pve-paymorrow commented 1 year ago

Hi, team, in our database we have few e-mail addresses containing hyphen just before @. Those addresses are valid (we sent e-mail to those addresses and got response), but phplist marked them as invalid. I'm not sure which RFC defines e-mail address format; according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Valid_email_addresses Wikipedia article: Valid email addresses user-@example.org (local-part ending with non-alphanumeric character from the list of allowed printable characters) the address is valid Please consider to not to mark this address format as invalid. Thank you

michield commented 1 year ago

The "official" email format allows all kinds of crazy email addresses, even ones that have the user part on multiple lines. Most systems around the internet have opted for a more simple approach, including phpList.

If you want, you can remove this line to see if it passes:

https://github.com/phpList/phplist3/blob/main/public_html/lists/admin/inc/userlib.php#L727

pve-paymorrow commented 1 year ago

OK, thank your for explanation the reasons why it's considered invalid and for help where in the source the checking code is.