id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc focuses 38897 user_email with & (ampersand) being encoded within the database making notifications fail garrett-eclipse "Hello, It seems WordPress does some encoding on the email field which causes issues as the encoded email is stored in the database and causes notifications to fail as it's no longer a valid email. The specific email i noticed this with had an ampersand (&) within the email, the following is a bogus one to illustrate; johnny&joey@telus.net This is apparently a valid email according to telus.net (as the email exists there, not that exact one of course) and according to IETF Trust as shown in this stack overflow answer; http://stackoverflow.com/a/2049510 Anyway, if you register a user with an email containing & it will encode it into the database and fail to deliver the password notification. The following should NOT be encoded; ""Characters ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~ Character . (dot, period, full stop) provided that it is not the first or last character, and provided also that it does not appear two or more times consecutively."" Thank you" defect (bug) new normal Awaiting Review Users 4.6.1 normal duplicate