I also reached out to them on Twitter but they directed me to this form. I followed up with them on Twitter with what happened in this screenshot but they are now ignoring me.

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    11 months ago

    My guess is that would also occur with valid but non-existing e-mail addresses no? The regex would not be a remedy there anyway.

    Of course you should only use the supplied e-mail address for things like mass mailings once it has been verified (i.e. the activation link from within the mail was clicked)

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      11 months ago

      That’s exactly what they did. They used something like [email protected] to get around the checks we had in place. I’ve intentionally been vague but most people will give their email address to our customers and won’t give a fake one. So under normal situations the amount of bounce backs would be minimal: fat fingering, hearing them incorrectly, or people misremembering their email. Not enough to worry about. Never thought we’d come across a customer intentionally putting in bad email addresses for documentation purposes. They could have just asked us to make the functionality they wanted.