I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

  • aard@kyu.deEnglish
    20·
    10 months ago

    I’m not aware of any correct email validations. I’m still looking for something accepting a space in the localpart.

    Also a surprising number of sites mess with the casing of the localpart. Don’t do that - many mailservers do accept arbitrary case, but not all. MyName@example.com and myname@example.com are two different mail addresses, which may point to the same mailbox if you are lucky.

    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      222·
      10 months ago

      The only correct regex for email is: .+@.+

      So long as the address has a local part, the at sign, and a hostname, it’s a valid email address.

      Whether it goes somewhere is the tricky part.

        • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          And this right here is a great example of why simple basic RegEx is rarely adequate

          At the very least, should be something like

          ^[^@\s]+@([^@\s.]+\.)+[^@\s.]+$

          I’m like 99% sure I missed at least a few cases there, and will say “please don’t use this for anything production”

          • jpeps@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            Here’s two: you can have multiple @s forming relays in an email address, and you can also break all the rules around dots and spaces if you put quotes around the local part, eg ".sarah.."@emails.com

      • xantoxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Sorry, this is not a correct regex for an email address.

        Sending using mail on a local unix system? You only need the local part.

        STOP VALIDATING NAMES AND EMAIL ADDRESSES. Send a verification email. Full stop. Don’t do anything else. You really want to do this anyway, because it’s a defense against bots.