Title: Email validation issue
Last modified: June 11, 2018

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# Email validation issue

 *  Resolved [mengsel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mengsel/)
 * (@mengsel)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-issue-3/)
 * Gmail addresses using + (plus) symbols are systematically marked as invalid in
   Data Access Request form.
 * Example: [myname+extra+tags@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-issue-3/myname+extra+tags@gmail.com?output_format=md)(
   delivered to [myname@gmail.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-issue-3/myname@gmail.com?output_format=md)),
   exists as user, but cannot submit Data Access Request. Form returns “Missing 
   or incorrect email address.”

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 *  [Donny Oexman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnyoexman/)
 * (@donnyoexman)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-issue-3/#post-10390106)
 * [@mengsel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mengsel/); We use the email validation
   functionality within the WordPress core. And you are correct, they do not allow
   any + signs, which is strange. I will check it out for a future release. Thanks
   for reporting.

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## Tags

 * [email](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/email/)
 * [form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/form/)
 * [invalid](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/invalid/)
 * [plus](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/plus/)
 * [request](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/request/)
 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Donny Oexman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnyoexman/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/email-validation-issue-3/#post-10390106)
 * Status: resolved