What Characters are Supported in the Okta Email Address Field
Dec 11, 2023
Okta Classic Engine
Okta Identity Engine
Administration
Overview
Applies To
- User profile
- Email address
Solution
Consistent with Section 3 of the RFC 3696 specification published by the IETF, Okta email addresses to support the following characters:
- Standard English alphabet
- Numbers
- Special characters: ! # $ % & ' * + - / = ? ^ _ ` . { | } ~
- Except for the characters ' ` ~ shown above, no diacritical marks are supported in Okta email addresses.
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Note: The period character (.) may not be used to start or end the part of an email address that precedes the @ symbol (known as the "local"part), nor can two or more periods be used consecutively. For example:
Supported
Not supported
