Req #49576 [ReO->Fbk]: Filter var for validating email is not validating emails correctly

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49576&edit=1 ID: 49576 Updated by: pajoye@php.net Reported by: mparkin at de-facto dot com Summary: Filter var for validating email is not validating emails correctly -Status: Re-Opened +Status: Feedback Type: Feature/Change Request Package: *General Issues Operating System: * -PHP Version: 5.*, 6 +PHP Version: 5.* Assigned To: rasmus Block user comment: N New Comment: Have you tried with 5.2.14 or 5.3.3? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-08-14 21:10:33] grangeway at hotmail dot com Additionally: 1) at the moment, I believe the current regex does not allow fred@com as an email address. Albeit, it's going back almost 10 years now - I'm pretty sure I received an email from someone @tld, complaining that a regex did not allow their valid email address to sign up. 2) The issue the user hit is the phpmailer class contains the following code to validate email addresses against FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL regardless of whether SMTP or mail() is the sending method. 550 public static function ValidateAddress($address) { 551 if (function_exists('filter_var')) { //Introduced in PHP 5.2 ... else regex ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-08-14 20:48:24] kalle@php.net Re-opened, the last comment seems quite valid to me, don't you think so Rasmus? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-08-05 16:41:58] alexsander dot rosa at gmail dot com The format "username@box" for local networks IS allowed when the mail() method is used. I quote RFC 5321: "local aliases MUST NOT appear in any SMTP transaction." They say NOTHING about mail() method in the RFC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-04-02 19:57:45] rasmus@php.net A much better RFC-compliant regex has been committed now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-04-02 19:56:39] rasmus@php.net Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of rasmus Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=297350 Log: Update the FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL filter to fix bug #49576 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49576 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49576&edit=1