Get emails V3 - hyphen in 'from' email address

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Posted on by idhirst

When using Get Emails (V3), an email format of firstname.lastname@email.com works fine.

but add a hyphen e.g. firstname.first-second@somewhere.com and it stops retrieving emails.

Does the hyphen need to be escaped, or the whole email enclosed in quotes? Any pointers welcome. Thanks.

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VishnuReddy1997 2,656 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @idhirst ,

Is it throwing any error or just not retrieving mails.
Just check whether you spelled email correctly. I am unable to replicate the issue as I don't have mail id with - with us.

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idhirst 17 on at

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Thanks for response.

Not throwing an error, just not receiving any emails.

I copied and pasted the email address from the email that we're trying to retrieve from the inbox.

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Deenuji_Loganathan_ 6,250 Moderator on at

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@idhirst
Its very difficult to reproduce your issue as email providers like gmail are not allowing hypen to create our email ids. So I wondering how we can assist you on this

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idhirst 17 on at

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Well, following an update to the latest version, the issue is resolved. There's nothing in the release notes to suggest a problem was fixed, so it could have been user error on my part.

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