Answers.Body: <p>Looks like the email validation inside CiviCRM does not like that pattern. If it is a valid email address that validation would have to be changed. You can do that yourself with a PR (<a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/core/contributing/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/core/contributing/</a>) or at least raise it as an issue (<a href="https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/tools/issue-tracking/#guidelines" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/tools/issue-tracking/#guidelines</a>). Thanks!</p>
  
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Body: <p>One of our contacts has a weird, rare email format:</p>
  <pre><code>name-@web.de
  </code></pre>
  <p>I did not know, that having a <code>-</code> in front of <code>@</code> is even possible. It is the correct adress and the adress reaches its owner. Regardless of how clever it is, having such an adress, I do have the problem: I cannot save it in the contact field. An error message: invalid email adress appears.</p>
  <p><strong>Does anybody know how to force civicrm to accept the weird email format?</strong></p>
  <hr />
  <p>using:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>CiviCRM 5.31.0.</li>
  </ul>
  
Tags: <contacts><email><contact-summary-editor>
Title: How to save email adresses having weird, rare format?
ThreadText: # How to save email adresses having weird, rare format?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-01-18)
  
  One of our contacts has a weird, rare email format:
  
  ```
  name-@web.de
  
  ```
  
  I did not know, that having a `-` in front of `@` is even possible. It is the correct adress and the adress reaches its owner. Regardless of how clever it is, having such an adress, I do have the problem: I cannot save it in the contact field. An error message: invalid email adress appears.
  
  **Does anybody know how to force civicrm to accept the weird email format?**
  
  ---
  
  using:
  
  * CiviCRM 5.31.0.
  
  **Tags:** contacts, email, contact-summary-editor
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2021-01-18. Score: 1
  
  Looks like the email validation inside CiviCRM does not like that pattern. If it is a valid email address that validation would have to be changed. You can do that yourself with a PR (<https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/core/contributing/>) or at least raise it as an issue (<https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/tools/issue-tracking/#guidelines>). Thanks!
  
  
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