Email validation too restrictive about ember-cp-validations

[blimmer]

If it's a valid character in emails, I think we should allow it. I, personally, use this all the time to see who sold my email (e.g. spam to [email protected])

If people want to prevent the +, they should make a custom validator IMO.

[offirgolan]

I agree. Ill add a more extensive email regex.

[stefanpenner]

worth a read: http://davidcel.is/posts/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex/

[blimmer]

I get the article's point, but when user registration is a key business metric, you really want to make sure that something stupid (like fat-fingering an email address) doesn't cause you to lose a registration. New users are valuable.

[ronco]

I think trying to get a perfect email regex would be a fool's errand.

However there is value in having a 99% solution to help out with fat-fingering and such. Consumers of this library can always override with their own regex if they want to be vastly more permissive. I think the current implementation is already covering 98%, it's just us techie types that really make use of the '+' in addresses.

[stefanpenner]

I think what the article really suggests is: be aware of the short-comings, and choose appropriately.

The title really is more click bait