Jokes aside, I have been blocked many times by overzealous email validation. Yes, my email has a plus sign in it. This is allowed under RFC5322, so deal with it. It is better to have no validation at all than incorrect validation.

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 minutes ago

The best email validation is just sending an email to whatever provided by the user. If user receives an email and validates it, than its validated.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 39 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

A plus sign? That's nothing, LOL

Quote:

If you disagree, or have any other comments, feel free to email me at
'*+-/=?^_`{|}~#$@[IPv6:2602:f977:800:0:e276:63ff:fe72:3900]
-- if your mail client lets you, that is.

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 57 minutes ago

Same although for a totally different reason. There are some services that really don't like gtlds and they will say your address is invalid if it doesn't end in .com, .net, or .org...all my serious domains are gtld...so some services have emails on meme domains because the only domains I have with traditional tlds are memes

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The worst sites are the ones that let you sign up with an unusual address but not log in. The worst I‘ve seen was some ticket system that rejected dfyx+theirdomain@mydomain after I clicked the link in their confirmation email.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 32 minutes ago

There's an aspect of my surname which is somewhat unusual (at least in my country). As a result I occasionally get form validation errors when entering it. Sometimes those errors are extremely inscrutable. Sometimes a form validates but something elsewhere makes unvalidated assumptions about names which then breaks in completely unpredictable names...