id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
16788	Ampersands in e-mail address become invalid	jfarthing84		"When an e-mail address contains an ampersand, WordPress improperly escapes the ampersand invalidating the e-mail address.

Example: h&f@domain.com becomes h&amp@domain.com

First of all, the proper HTML entity for ""&"" is '''&'''. Where did the extra '''amp''' come from?

Also, an ampersand is a valid character in an e-mail address and should not be escaped. Escaping it could be a completely different e-mail address.

I have not dug into the code to find out where this is happening but I'd assume in '''sanitize_email()'''."	defect (bug)	new	normal	Awaiting Review	Users	3.0.5	major		dev-feedback needs-patch	jeff@… joachim.kudish@…