[RFC] - Improve email validation

[egulias]

Hi!
The Email validator is curretnly ussing php built-in filter_var. As you may know it allows for false negatives on emails like name@localhost.
Would you consider integrating https://github.com/egulias/EmailValidator for the validation? It has been added as a (soft)dependency in Symfony (symfony/symfony#9140).
Swiftmailer is considering it to.
Thanks!

[gajus]

"name@localhost" is a valid email address. What do you mean by false-positive?

On Apr 11, 2014, at 9:00, Eduardo Gulias Davis notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi!
The Email validator is curretnly ussing php built-in filter_var. As you may know it allows for false negatives on emails like name@localhost.
Would you consider integrating https://github.com/egulias/EmailValidator for the validation? It has been added as a (soft)dependency in Symfony (symfony/symfony#9140).
Swiftmailer is considering it to.
Thanks!

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[egulias]

by false negative I mean that filter_var will say email@localhost is invalid.

[gajus]

I hame misunderstood you.

var_dump(filter_var('email@localhost', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL));

Yes, that's not right. I will consider https://github.com/egulias/EmailValidator as well as the alternatives.

[egulias]

Great! Thanks. If you find an alternative, let me know so I can check it too.