Email address with non-ASCII local part passes validation but fails with AWS error
Author: danatempleCreated Feb 2, 2026Updated Feb 15, 2026
I'm not an expert on whether this should be the case, but e.g.
passes validation with RFCValidation() but is then rejected by the AWS SES API:
<Error>
<Type>Sender</Type>
<Code>InvalidPara (truncated...)
InvalidParameterValue (client): Local address contains control or whitespace - <ErrorResponse xmlns="http://ses.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-12-01/">
<Error>
This is with release 4.0.4 on a Laravel 12 framework vanilla email validation setup.
Maybe that address is not strictly wrong acc to the RFC (I don't know?), but the end result is a bit problematic. Any solutions?
Source: egulias/EmailValidator