I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

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    I’m not aware of any correct email validations. I’m still looking for something accepting a space in the localpart.

    Also a surprising number of sites mess with the casing of the localpart. Don’t do that - many mailservers do accept arbitrary case, but not all. MyName@example.com and myname@example.com are two different mail addresses, which may point to the same mailbox if you are lucky.

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      11 months ago

      The only correct regex for email is: .+@.+

      So long as the address has a local part, the at sign, and a hostname, it’s a valid email address.

      Whether it goes somewhere is the tricky part.

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        Sorry, this is not a correct regex for an email address.

        Sending using mail on a local unix system? You only need the local part.

        STOP VALIDATING NAMES AND EMAIL ADDRESSES. Send a verification email. Full stop. Don’t do anything else. You really want to do this anyway, because it’s a defense against bots.