Bug Hunt: valid IPv6 domain literals in email addresses fail validation

[andris9]

Validating e-mail addresses is a compromise between all the various RFCs and real world, so I do not mind if you disregard this as not a bug.

RFC5321 defines domain literals that can be used instead of hostnames in the e-mail address. While you seem to pass IPv4 addresses in the form of user@[127.0.0.1], joi does not recognize IPv6 format which is a bit different, namely user@[IPv6:zzz] where zzz is a valid IPv6 address, using either full or compact syntax.

Output for validating such address:

{ [Error: value must be a valid email]
  details: 
   [ { message: 'value must be a valid email',
       path: 'value',
       type: 'string.email' } ],
  _object: 'van@[IPv6:2a00:1450:4001:c02::1b]',
  annotate: [Function] }

[hueniverse]

Thanks for the report. This was fixed via an earlier bug hunt report which clearly showed just how sad our previous email regex was. Because the code we had was so poorly done for email verification, I just replaced the whole thing with another module which should clear all these other email bug reports.

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