django-full-email

README.md

Full e-mail address Field for Django

Out of the box, Django e-mail fields for both database models and forms only accept plain e-mail addresses. For example, [email protected] is accepted.

On the other hand, full e-mail addresses which include a human-readable name, for example the following address fails validation in Django::

Joe Hacker <[email protected]>

Base on: https://gist.github.com/akaihola/1505228

fields.py

from django import forms
from django.core.validators import validate_email
from django.forms.fields import Field
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

class FullEmailField(Field):
    description = _(u"Full email ('Full Name <email@address>')")

    def clean(self, value):
        try:
            validate_email(value)
        except forms.ValidationError:
            # Trivial case failed. Try for possible Full Name <email@address>
            if value and u'<' in value and value.endswith(u'>'):
                parts = value.rsplit(u'<', 1)
                email_part = parts[1][:-1]
                validate_email(email_part)
            else:
                validate_email(value)
        return value