Edit User: value is not a valid email address

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I have setup a LAN-only email server with domain mail.home.arpa, to receive notifications for administration purposes.

Now, when trying to set truenas_admin@mail.home.arpa, I get following error:

value is not a valid email address: The part after the @-sign is a special-use or reserved name that cannot be used with email.

I think it would be useful to loosen up this restriction a bit, so local email addresses can be specified as well. What do you think?

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Don’t use arpa.
in-addr.arpa is reserved for reverse dns.

Pick something else.

I’ll add that I am aware of the RFC from 2018 regarding home.arpa, that doesn’t change my advice. It’s not worth the trouble trying to MacGyver this.

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I’d be curious to hear justifications.

Please read again: arpa or in-addr.arpa are something different (except sharing same technical TLD).

home.arpa is exactly for local network configurations and private home networks, where a public domain is not desired - you already provided the RFC. Hence “Pick something else” might not be a good advice, as DNS requests have risk of being routed to public otherwise.

home.arpa works like a charm for me, no hassle.