KB-1020 "<email> is not a valid email address" thrown when trying to add an email with a non-standard domain to a user

Symptoms

Upon creating a new user/editing an existing user and defining an email address with a non-standard domain (a domain that does not end with .com, .net, etc.), the following error is thrown and users are unable to proceed:

example@example.example is not a valid email address

Cause

Email validation does not permit use of non-standard domains in email addresses.

Action

This has been addressed in Appian 16.1. Starting with this release, any email address can be used assuming that there are valid alphanumeric characters present and at least one period in the domain is present.

Please upgrade to this release to take advantage of the fix.

Affected Versions

This article applies to Appian 7.11 and earlier.

Last Reviewed: February 2017

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