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Reputation: 33655

Django 1.8 EmailField now accepts invalid email addresses

Using Django 1.8 model EmailField like so...

email = models.EmailField(verbose_name='email address', max_length=254, unique=True, db_index=True)

...allows invalid emails to be entered. For example the following creates a valid user when should error...

User(email="number_six@caprica", password="xyz")

However, if I test the validator in Django it correctly catches it...

from django.core.validators import validate_email validate_email("number_six@caprica")

I get the correct Enter a valid email address. responce.

So whats going on? Does EmailField and validate_email not use the same regex? Why does EmailField accept invalid email addresses where validate_email does not?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1220

Answers (1)

aumo
aumo

Reputation: 5574

These are not invalid email addresses, browsers accept those too in inputs of type email.

me@localhost for example is a valid email address.

Local domain names do not require a TLD, that is why.

Edit: although these are valid email addresses, Django does not accept them. EmailField does use the validate_email validator.

Your issue is that model instances validation has to be run manually, using the full_clean method for example. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/instances/#validating-objects for more information.

Upvotes: 2

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