In Progress CPANEL-41138 - Allowing apostrophes in email addresses

[mvandemar]

I am trying to debug some code having to do with email addresses that have apostrophes in them, but when I go to create a test email in my cpanel I am getting the following error:

The username can only contain letters, numbers, periods, hyphens, and underscores.

According to RFC 3696, apostrophes are valid as the username portion of an email address:

RFC 3696: Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names

Many Internet applications have been designed to deduce top-level domains (or other domain name labels) from partial information. The introduction of new top-level domains, especially non-country-code ones, has exposed flaws in some of the methods used by these applications. These flaws make it...

datatracker.ietf.org

Is there a way to enable allowing them in cpanel?

Thanks.

-Michael

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! At this point, no, there's not a way to get those created in cPanel. I reached out to the email team, but being late in the afternoon on a Friday, it might be a bit before I hear back. I'll leave this thread marked as "new" so I can follow up next week.

 

[cPRex]

Thanks for your patience on this one. We had some discussions this morning and our best guess is that older code was created to help stop MySQL-style code injections from happening on the email address input form. I've opened case CPANEL-41138 with our developers to see if we can get the user interface up to RFC standards, and I'll be sure to post more details as soon as I hear an update from the team.

 

[mvandemar]

Thanks @cPRex!

-Michael

 

[cPRex]

Sure thing!