use email_validator instead of validate_email which isn't updated for a while

app/email_utils.py

@@ -6,22 +6,22 @@ import quopri
 import random
 import re
 import time
+from copy import deepcopy
 from email.errors import HeaderParseError
-from email.header import decode_header
+from email.header import decode_header, Header
 from email.message import Message
 from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
 from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 from email.utils import make_msgid, formatdate, parseaddr
 from smtplib import SMTP, SMTPServerDisconnected
-from typing import Tuple, List, Optional
-from copy import deepcopy
+from typing import Tuple, List, Optional, Union
 
 import arrow
 import dkim
 import spf
+from email_validator import validate_email, EmailNotValidError
 from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
 from sqlalchemy import func
-from validate_email import validate_email
 
 from app.config import (
     SUPPORT_EMAIL,
@@ -769,10 +769,16 @@ def should_add_dkim_signature(domain: str) -> bool:
 
 
 def is_valid_email(email_address: str) -> bool:
-    """Used to check whether an email address is valid"""
-    return validate_email(
-        email_address=email_address, check_mx=False, use_blacklist=False
-    )
+    """
+    Used to check whether an email address is valid
+    NOT run MX check.
+    NOT allow unicode.
+    """
+    try:
+        validate_email(email_address, check_deliverability=False, allow_smtputf8=False)
+        return True
+    except EmailNotValidError:
+        return False
 
 
 class EmailEncoding(enum.Enum):

poetry.lock

@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ requests = "*"
 name = "filelock"
 version = "3.0.12"
 description = "A platform independent file lock."
-category = "main"
+category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = "*"
 
@@ -1166,19 +1166,6 @@ category = "dev"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "py3-validate-email"
-version = "0.2.10"
-description = "Email validator with regex, blacklisted domains and SMTP checking."
-category = "main"
-optional = false
-python-versions = "*"
-
-[package.dependencies]
-dnspython = ">=2.0,<3.0"
-filelock = ">=3.0,<4.0"
-idna = ">=2.10,<3.0"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "pyasn1"
 version = "0.4.8"
@@ -1805,7 +1792,7 @@ testing = ["coverage (>=5.0.3)", "zope.event", "zope.testing"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.7"
-content-hash = "a80a9f350a39e926d74ea73a7b9d5b04ec8b515bcc2e9bc31bd2537989763aa5"
+content-hash = "a2f1de1d4ecbe4b1e36d965bb9ba52d10d16b344b6c7e4509a53245b67fdcec5"
 
 [metadata.files]
 aiohttp = [
@@ -2440,9 +2427,6 @@ py = [
     {file = "py-1.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:366389d1db726cd2fcfc79732e75410e5fe4d31db13692115529d34069a043c2"},
     {file = "py-1.9.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:9ca6883ce56b4e8da7e79ac18787889fa5206c79dcc67fb065376cd2fe03f342"},
 ]
-py3-validate-email = [
-    {file = "py3-validate-email-0.2.10.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:3bbb264b49c0ae09afdb2738956f00b0e8dd7e079e2d079b2e9b6688de474d28"},
-]
 pyasn1 = [
     {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py2.4.egg", hash = "sha256:fec3e9d8e36808a28efb59b489e4528c10ad0f480e57dcc32b4de5c9d8c9fdf3"},
     {file = "pyasn1-0.4.8-py2.5.egg", hash = "sha256:0458773cfe65b153891ac249bcf1b5f8f320b7c2ce462151f8fa74de8934becf"},

pyproject.toml

@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ gevent = "^20.9.0"
 aiospamc = "^0.6.1"
 email_validator = "^1.1.1"
 PGPy = "^0.5.3"
-py3-validate-email = "^0.2.10"
 coinbase-commerce = "^1.0.1"
 requests = "^2.25.1"
 newrelic = "^6.4.4"