Fake emails

[Kowlin]

Quick and simple bug in the emails. It appears that you can set a invalid email address while registering or editing by just adding a @ in the field, and its accepted.

[henrywright]

@Kowlin just a side note, I always make sure I require email verification which seems to stop spoof email addresses at the point of registration.

[julian]

We purposefully err on the side of accepting emails because running a regular expression to validate emails is ridiculously hard:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/using-a-regular-expression-to-validate-an-email-address

[Kowlin]

But atleast one thing is consistent, emails will always have a @ and . in them. Might be more helpful to do that then just @ to have a bigger safeguard to human failur.

[julian]

The idea is that rejecting emails outright serves no purpose besides being an annoying roadblock for a user upon registration.

If someone wants to put in a garbage email, they'll figure out a way, and on the other hand, throwing errors on legit signups increases barrier to entry.

[a_5mith]

As above, best way to validate is to force email validation.