788113 - HMO: allows + in e-mail addresses (they are valid)

Status: NEW

(Developer Engagement :: Mozilla Hacks, task)

Description

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

From a comment (user feedback):

(Sidenote: I couldn’t use my desired email address as it contains a plus ‘+’ sign in the username, which is a valid character in the username. Please correct this. I use it for a clever feature of GMail …)

Comment 1

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

I'm not sure if this is an MDN bug or a Persona bug...

Comment 2

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Hey Jean-Yves. We have reorganized a few things, so please file Hacks bugs against the "Website" product and the component "hacks.mozilla.org" in the future.

(As it happens, I am able to use + in my email addresses on Persona/MDN.)

Comment 3

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

Same here - I have 2 email addresses with "+" in them on Persona/MDN

Comment 4

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

The bug may still exist. I just mentioned Persona as an aside. The original report was about Wordpress' authentication system on Hacks.

Comment 5

[Florian Bender]

As the one complaining initially I just want to stress that this issue aroused with a simple comment on a HMO blog post without a login. It is neither a Persona nor a MDN issue (though I haven't tested it).