validatorjs
Email Validator issue for double quotes and special characters
For the isEmail function, some emails like "example*."@gmail.com gets accepted due to the given below function
if(user[0] === '"' && user[user.length - 1] === '"') {
user = user.slice(1, user.length - 1);
return options.allow_utf8_local_part ?
quotedEmailUserUtf8.test(user) :
quotedEmailUser.test(user);
}
For a valid mail, charaters like '*' and '.' should not be accepted, even when enclosed within double quotes (they should only allow some special characters and spaces). So I think the quotedEmailUserUtf8 regEx needs to be checked, but I am not sure.
* and . are allowed in email addresses. If quoted, a . character is also allowed as the last character of the local part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local-part
To sum up: "example*."@gmail.com is a valid email address.
hey @code0emperor allow me to fix this
this isn't a bug, though, the email address is valid. the library does have gmail-specific rules - set domain_specific_validation to true in the options to enable those.
@code0emperor I want to work on this issue. Allow me to do it
Please see my comment above
closing this issue in favor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Local-part
