[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-364?page=com... ] Hardy Ferentschik commented on HV-364: -------------------------------------- According to the [rfc 2822|http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html] these are valid email addresses. Or at least '~' and '/' are valid characters. The problem is that many systems implemented a simpler (and in this case non con-formant) email parser. Implementing a email validator is always a trade off. See also this [article|http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html]. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HV-364?page=com... ] Anthony Gerrard commented on HV-364: ------------------------------------ I think the specification is ambiguous and contradictory. It says: "An addr-spec is a specific Internet identifier that contains a locally interpreted string followed by the at-sign character ("@", ASCII value 64) followed by an Internet domain." ... "The domain portion identifies the point to which the mail is delivered. In the dot-atom form, this is interpreted as an Internet domain name (either a host name or a mail exchanger name) as described in [STD3, STD13, STD14]. In the domain-literal form, the domain is interpreted as the literal Internet address of the particular host." It links to standards that exclude tilda and slash (and all other special characters aside from period and hyphen) from the domain portion. This contradicts the ABNF version which allows any character in a dot atom. I the light of this contradiction shouldn't @Email pick the most useful (and most valid) alternative? Both the examples given here are based on something our users have actually typed in the last month. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira