Gmail email addresses with "+" symbol are being rejected as "You entered an invalid email address."

[trippy1976]

I'm loading user details from my main website to my 4.2.1 version forums software via a CURL script command.

In the receiving script I do the following:
$userdm->set('email', qpc_post('email'));

Then later I check if there were errors:
if (count($userdm->errors)) {
for($i=0; $i<count($userdm->errors); $i++) {
print "ERROR{$i}:{$userdm->errors[$i]}\n";
}
} else {
# If everything is OK
$newuserid = $userdm->save();
print "$newuserid\n";
}

If not, I save the user information. This has been working fine for years.

Now, a number of my users are using gmail addresses with + symbol in them.

As an example they can add a + and then anything to a gmail. This allows them to see where the email is coming from potentially. I actually use this option myself.

[email protected]

Anything with that + symbol gets rejected as "You entered an invalid email address."

Can I somehow change a setting to allow + in the email?

[worried]

Just my opinion. I would consider using reserved characters bad practice for username.

[BirdOPrey5]

Just my opinion. I would consider using reserved characters bad practice for username.

He's saying the problem is with the email not the username.

This is weird because there is a bug that was fixed in 4.2.1 - http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-15206

And the regex that checks for a valid email clearly DOES allow there to be a + in the email address-

^[a-z0-9.!\#$%&\'*+\-/=?^_`{|}~]+@([0-9.]+|([^\s\'"<>@,;]+\.+[a-z]{2,6}))$

Do you have any 3rd party plugins that could be checking emails?

[Zachery]

Since you're writing custom code, this should really be handled at vBulletin.org