Viva.com, one of Europe's largest payment processors, sends verification emails without a Message-ID header — a requirement of RFC 5322 since 2008. Google Workspace rejects them outright. Their support team's response to my detailed bug report: your account has a verified email, so there's no problem.
There’s already a standard that defines what is an acceptable email address. And an standard reply for a rejected email address.
The issue is you’re dealing with a misconfigured or inappropriate email stack.
Yep. This happens when some idiot tries to roll their own regex. I’ve also seen them frequently reject my+email@domain
My favorite is when you do “[email protected]” and they come back saying it’s an invalid email. But “[email protected]” works just fine. Meaning they are looking for their company name in the email and hard failing on it.
The one I am thinking of in particular also failed with “[email protected]”.