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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.
Somebody made a shitty regex.
this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
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Probably, from what I can see the address in question isn't really that exotic. but an email regex that validates 100% correctly is near impossible. And then you still don't know if the email address actually exists.
I'd just take the user at their word and send an email with an activation link to the address that was supplied. If the address is invalid, the mail won't get delivered. No harm done.
Email standard sucks anyway. By the official standard, User@email.com and user@email.com should be treated as separate users...
Personally I don't think that sucks or is even wrong. Case-independent text processing is more cumbersome. 'U' and 'u' are two different symbols. And you have to make such rules for every language a part of your processing logic.
If people can take case-dependence for passwords (or official letters and their school papers), then it's also fine for email addresses.
The actual problem is cultural, coming from DOS and Windows where many things are case-independent. It's an acquired taste.
The best of validation is just to confirm that the email contains a @ and a . and if it does send it an email with a confirmation link.
TLDs are valid in emails, as are IP V6 addresses, so checking for a . is technically not correct. For example a@b and a@[IPv6:2001:db8::1] are both valid email addresses.
Jeez and I feel like I'm tempting fate just by using a custom domain.
That is 100% a bot, and whoever made the bot just stuck in a custom regex to match “user@sld.tld” instead of using a standardized domain validation lib that actually handles cases like yours correctly.
Edit: the bots are redirecting you to bots are redirecting you to bots. This is not a bug. This is by design.
Smells like bad regex
Exactly. After the @ they should just confirm there's at least one period. The rest is pretty much up in the air.
Even that would be technically incorrect. I believe you could put an A record on a TLD if you wanted. In theory, my email could be me@example.
Another hole to poke in the single dot regex: I could put in fake@com. with a dot trailing after the TLD, which would satisfy "dot after @" but is not an address to my knowledge.
The easiest and most correct check: any character, then @, then any other character.
The best way to validate an email address is to sent it an email validation link.
Anything outside of that is a waste of effort.
That is 100% a chatbot using a regex email validator someone wrote as a meme that the chipotle dev copied from stack overflow without context.
As the owner of a .info domain, I know this pain all too well.
One of the reasons I've always avoided .info, nobody seems to believe it's a real domain
I work for Chipotle Corporate. Please send me your email address. I'll make sure it gets fixed.
Nice try I've heard that before