Title: Found Email Validation Bug
Last modified: April 13, 2018

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# Found Email Validation Bug

 *  Resolved [DDSameera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ddsameera/)
 * (@ddsameera)
 * [7 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-email-validation-bug/)
 * Step 01
    Go To “cf7-custom-validation.php”
 * Step 02
    Find “`if ( ’email’ == $tag->basetype ) {”
 * Step 03
    Add Following code `if ( ’email’ == $tag->basetype ) {
 *  $value = isset( $_POST[$name] )
    ? trim( wp_unslash( strtr( (string) $_POST[
   $name], “\n”, ” ” ) ) ) : ”; if ( $tag->is_required() && ” == $value ) { $result-
   >invalidate( $tag, wpcf7_get_message( $name ) ); if ( ” != $value && ! wpcf7_is_email(
   $value ) ) { $result->invalidate( $tag, wpcf7_get_message( $name ) ); } }
 *  }

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 *  Plugin Author [aiyaz Khorajia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aiyaz/)
 * (@aiyaz)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-email-validation-bug/#post-10189621)
 * Thanks for reporting it, I’ve fixed that issue.

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [aiyaz Khorajia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aiyaz/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/found-email-validation-bug/#post-10189621)
 * Status: resolved