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Email Validation Guide

This document examines the validity of various email address formats and identifies reasons for invalid and valid addresses. It provides examples of email addresses and analyzes them, noting issues like missing or extra characters, invalid special characters or top-level domains, and acceptable variations like subdomains and plus signs in the username. The document uses these examples to distinguish formatting rules for properly structured email addresses.

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Email Validation Guide

This document examines the validity of various email address formats and identifies reasons for invalid and valid addresses. It provides examples of email addresses and analyzes them, noting issues like missing or extra characters, invalid special characters or top-level domains, and acceptable variations like subdomains and plus signs in the username. The document uses these examples to distinguish formatting rules for properly structured email addresses.

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Invalid Email address plainaddress #@%^%#$@#$@#.com @[Link] Joe Smith <email@[Link]> [Link] email@domain@[Link] .email@[Link] email.@[Link] email..email@[Link] email@domain.

com (Joe Smith) email@domain email@-[Link] email@[Link] [email protected] [email protected] Valid Email address email@[Link] [Link]@[Link] email@[Link] firstname+lastname@[Link] email@[Link] email@[[Link]] "email"@[Link] 1234567890@[Link] email@[Link] _______@[Link] email@[Link] email@[Link] firstname-lastname@[Link]

Reason Missing @ sign and domain Garbage Missing username Encoded html within email is invalid Missing @ Two @ sign Leading dot in address is not allowed Trailing dot in address is not allowed Multiple dots Text followed email is not allowed Missing top level domain (.com/.net/.org/etc) Leading dash in front of domain is invalid .web is not a valid top level domain Invalid IP format Multiple dot in the domain portion is invalid Reason Valid email Email contains dot in the address field Email contains dot with subdomain Plus sign is considered valid character Domain is valid IP address Square bracket around IP address is considered valid Quotes around email is considered valid Digits in address are valid Dash in domain name is valid Underscore in the address field is valid .name is valid Top Level Domain name Dot in Top Level Domain name also considered valid (use [Link] as example here) Dash in address field is valid

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