Valid email marked as invalid about email_address HOT 5 CLOSED

I can, looks like you missed the part about starting with 2 digits:

[1] pry(main)> require 'email_address'
=> true

[2] pry(main)> email = '[email protected]';

[3] pry(main)> EmailAddress.valid?(email)
=> false

[4] pry(main)> puts EmailAddress::VERSION
0.1.12

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Thanks for bringing this forward. It is a bug. My previous research showed that new email addresses must start with a letter, and that only outlook/hotmail domains are allowed anymore. So that is how I set up the check.

I have a large database of email addresses (at work), and I did find some valid live.com addresses that start with a digit, so it looks like this the rule changed over at the Microsoft/Hotmail/MSN/Live/Outlook identity service. (Fun fact, when created in 1996, Hotmail was branded HoTMaiL to highlight its HTML interface, then sold to MS the next year.)

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I can't reproduce.

> gem i email_address
Fetching email_address-0.1.12.gem
Successfully installed email_address-0.1.12
Parsing documentation for email_address-0.1.12
Installing ri documentation for email_address-0.1.12
Done installing documentation for email_address after 0 seconds
1 gem installed

> pry
pry: main > require 'email_address'
=> true

pry: main > email = '[email protected]'; puts EmailAddress.valid?(email); puts EmailAddress.error(email)
true

=> nil

pry: main > puts EmailAddress::VERSION
0.1.12
=> nil

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Sorry, that's true.

But there are errors:

pry: main > email = '[email protected]'; puts EmailAddress.valid?(email); puts EmailAddress.error(email)
false
Recipient is not valid

And some investigation brings me to the https://github.com/afair/email_address/blame/1660263/lib/email_address/config.rb#L146, and the change is 10fc1d3

So, I guess, it should be closed until there will be other proofs of allowing digits as first characters for MSN.

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Released version 0.1.13

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