ISPconfig3, email validation issue

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by Justin Albstmeijer, Jul 4, 2008.

  1. Tested trunk checkout of today.

    when creating a DNS Zone,

    Email: [ ] e.g. postmaster.mydomain.com.

    - example is not an email
    - when leaving email empty it gets accepted
    - when trying to enter a valid email address (including '@') it gets rejected

    Error:
    Email format invalid.
     
  2. till

    till Super Moderator Staff Member ISPConfig Developer

    Thats all correct except that a empty value is accepted, I added this to the bugtracker. As the example points out, the email has to entered in a special format, which is used by most DNS servers like BIND and MyDNS. Instead of:

    [email protected]

    you must enter:

    yourname.yourdomain.com.
     
  3. Ah, ok clear..

    how does dns handle email addresses like [email protected]?

    justin.albstmeijer.domain.com could be interpreted as [email protected] or [email protected]

    seems somewhat confusing for users..
    Wouldn't it be better to default to postmaster.domain.com and give a warning within the email management tab that there needs to be a forward for [email protected] as long as it does not exist?
     

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