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Bug 25945 - Current implementation allows "." character as first character in email address
Summary: Current implementation allows "." character as first character in email address
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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: 25944 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-06-02 10:24 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2014-08-05 22:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2014-06-02 10:24:32 UTC 
Specification: 
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#e-mail-state-(type=email)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#e-mail-state-(type=email)
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Comment:
Current implementation allows "." character as first character in email
address

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-06-02 18:13:58 UTC 
*** Bug 25944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-06-02 18:14:03 UTC 
What's the bug here?
Comment 3 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2014-08-05 22:24:09 UTC 
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.