topic Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails in Lead Capture Tools

Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

Nikbin — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:39:11 GMT

Hey guys,

we are having an issue with the validation of emails in our Hubspot form. E.g. Using the email address "test@shore.com" is being displayed as not valid although the domain shore.com exists. Any ideas?

You can find the form here when you click on request free demo.

Thanks a lot!

Best regards

Nik

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

roisinkirby — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:48:01 GMT

Hey @Nikbin while the domain exists, it doesn't sound like the entire email address is valid. Does the form work when you test with your own email?

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

Nikbin — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:55:25 GMT

Hi @roisinkirby,

thanks a lot for your response! Yes, my own email works, but how does Hubspot know if an email address within a domain actually exists?

Best regards

Nikbin

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

roisinkirby — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:57:00 GMT

HubSpot automatically validates email addresses as they are entered on your HubSpot forms. This default functionality, built into HubSpot forms, helps to prevent spam form submissions. If you or your customers attempt to submit a form with a fake or outdated email address, an error message will be displayed beneath the email field.

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

Méryl — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 08:13:17 GMT

Hello,

I've got the same issue. Some email address that are normaly correct are not validated by hubspot on our form. But I can't identify a specific rule that can engender the issue.

For exemple, meryl@gmail.com or meryl45@gmail.com don't work but firstname.lastname@gmail.com is ok.

Did Hubspot make any change in its email form ?

We are loosing some subscription because of it, we searched for an answer but didn't found anything.

Thank you.

Bests regards,

Méryl

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

BerghSuzanne — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:04:21 GMT

The problem still exists, is there a work around. We can't organize events with your software, if people can't subscribe to our events.... Please help?!

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

roisinkirby — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:08:59 GMT

Hi all, I can confirm that there have been no changes to the way HubSpot forms validate emails.

HubSpot automatically validates email addresses as they are entered on your HubSpot forms. This default functionality helps to prevent spam form submissions. If you or your customers attempt to submit a form with a fake or outdated email address, an error message will be displayed beneath the email field.

If you are seeing the message "Please enter your business email address. This form does not accept addresses from domain.com," your email field is likely set to not allow submissions from free email providers. Read more about this setting here.

You can verify emails yourself using these resources:

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

Wiebke — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 09:08:01 GMT

Following up on this issue, I noticed also that emails containing an underscore are not allowed, how come? Those can be emails, no?

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

DMurphy1 — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 02:07:21 GMT

I have the same issue. The form isn't allowing an email to get entered even though it is a valid address. It is suggesting we change the .org in the address to .fr

Why? the address is valid.

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

Maaike — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 07:53:28 GMT

We have the same problem with a hotmail account. The e-mail adress is valid and the user is already known as a contact in Hubspot.

Best, Maaike

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

jennysowyrda — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:04:36 GMT

Hey all,

This was a known issue that has since been resolved. If you're still having issues with specific email addresses, please let me know.

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

jbhafner — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 03:40:41 GMT

Hi Jenny. The problem has not been resolved. As of 10/11/2018, email validation is laggy (by several seconds) on some email constructs, and throwing an invalid error on other addresses that are perfectly valid. In my testing, .edu addresses were particularly affected.

I have a screen recording that I can share a link to for further info upon request.

As others have stated, false negatives against valid contacts is of far greater consequence than accidental validation of spam contacts.

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

jennysowyrda — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:44:34 GMT

Hey @jbhafner,

Sorry you're still experiencing this issue; can you please share those screenshots with me through either here or direct message (click the envelope in the top right hand corner). Additionally if you can link me to the page with the form that would be great!

Thanks,

Jenny

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

nkelner — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:05:11 GMT

I'm having this problem too. It sounds like you all are working on it but I'd like to add my voice to the chorus to perhaps get this fixed faster. It's really unnaceptable for hubspot not to handle this perfectly. It's business critical and it's something that just about every form on the the entire internet handles perfectly and without a problem.

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

Wiebke — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 04:21:16 GMT

Please see attached a screenshot. This is now just with using the underscore. The page it happens on is every page I tried so far but for example this:https://pages.opuscapita.com/ebook-how-to-make-services-procurement-efficient-and-compliant

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

jennysowyrda — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:27:24 GMT

Thanks for sharing @Wiebke,

It looks like the email address I am seeing as valid includes a period (".") as opposed to an underscore ("_"). When I put in the email address with the period, the warning message went away.

If the underscore email address is associated with a valid inbox, can you please send along a received email from that inbox showing the inbox is valid?

Thank you,
Jenny

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

jbhafner — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:47:57 GMT

(For visibility to the community)

I forwarded the screen recording to Jenny along with the link to the form.

In addition, here are some relevant parts of the response from the support ticket:

"Part of the validation process that is done is to check their DNS provider and check that their inbox is available and valid. We could be seeing the validator mark them as invalid at the time of submitting if their inbox wasn't available at the time, or their mail server is prompting the error during the validation process. This does resolve on the mail provider side but our team here is currently exploring options and working on ways to improve this with the email protection team and our services. These contacts can also be manually added into your account and our system will check that the contact with this email exists to allow them to submit the form in the future should that error message display."

I am following up with Support to better understand the process of "manually" adding contacts into the account for the purpose of validating future form submissions.

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

fkahlert — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:02:56 GMT

This is clearly NOT solved.

I have yesterday seen it fail on several attempts.

All emails were VALID corporate US .com emails - no edu, nothing international.

Notably

@coca-cola.com was rejected (and this is a valid corp email) emails with dashes in the name (a-b@domain.com) were rejected and a perfectly normal domain without any special characters was rejected (and yes, the person who tried to enter it is the CMO of that organization and does know the name of her company)

This is happening on a sign up form we use at a trade show so I can clearly see people entering their emails.

Is there a way to turn off the validation alltogether?

Thx

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

YTopor — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 23:16:29 GMT

Having the same issue, form suggesting email change to .fr instead of .org

Re: Failing validation in hubspot form for emails

jbhafner — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:24:18 GMT

Adding to the thread for visibility.

I received a message from our CSM yesterday (10/22/2018) stating that HubSpot is going to make a change to the email validation process for affected accounts. He quoted text from the product team, but apparently that particular update is not posted publically so I'm not going to repost it here. Suffice it to say that this issue was raised by a sufficient number of HubSpot customers to warrant action.

Hopefully we see a reduction in false negative (validation errors) on forms.