A simple class to fix common input errors in Email addresses.

This library takes a string and tries to turn it into a 'clean' email address without any extraneous junk that would cause it to fail.

This library was written to simplify importing email addresses from files and other systems where proper sanitisation hadn't previously been applied. Lists of users to add to a system supplied in Excel, email addresses collected from conferences etc. The intention is to be 'good enough' to fix 99% of the common errors you see in that kind of data, leaving you free to only look at the ones that definitely failed.

Catch and 'fix' a variety of common issues like:

• Trailing semi-colons, commas etc
• Leading or trailing whitespace (including zero-widths)
• Addresses wrapped in quotes or primes
• Addresses wrapped in angle brackets (discarding anything else like a name)
• Rejects obviously broken addresses like test, test@, test@. etc.

• Verify that the email address/domain/mail server exists or will work, obviously. The only way to test an email address is to actually send to it. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
• Work for every possible RFC compliant email - there are plenty of things you're technically allowed to do that you're not going to come across in the real world. e.g. me@localhost
• Guarantee that it matches the user's intent (e.g. if there were multiple email addresses listed, it will only pick the first one. Is that correct? ¯\(ツ)/¯)

use Actinity\Sanitiser\Sanitiser;

$address = Sanitiser::clean($address)

clean() returns either a clean address, or false if it looks hopelessly broken.