I have a user with an email addres in the format of "john-doe@somewhere.net". He cannot register for my DNN site because DNN rejects his email address and gives an error "You must enter a valid email address". 

Apparently DNN rejects email addresses with a hyphen in the name.

Can this be changed? Has anyone else had this problem? Fixes?

there is a regexp, that needs to be modified, AFAIR Erik blogged about it recently here on DNN.com.

This shall be solved in DNN 4.5.2.

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As mentoned it is a regex change, it is actually very simple.

In the regEx that validates the email it has something like this [a-zA-Z*-_ and more characters.  You just need to put a \ before the -

 

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