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Specification: Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#e-mail-state-(type=email) Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#e-mail-state-(type=email) Referrer: Comment: Current implementation allows "." character as first character in email address Posted from: 182.253.72.206 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0
*** Bug 25944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
What's the bug here?
As far as I can tell, a dot in an e-mail address (as in ".foo@example.org") is fine. At the SMTP level it has to be quoted, but that seems like a detail that we shouldn't expose users to.