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That would be bad form, IMO. The user may have typed john..kennedy@example.com by mistake instead of john.f.kennedy@example.com, and now you’ll be sending their email to john.kennedy@example.com. Similar for leading or trailing dots. You can’t just decide what a user probably meant, when they type in something invalid.


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