Should I sanitize an email address before passing it to the is_email() function?

Looking at the is_email() functionality on trac, it looks like you don’t need to sanatizie as it’s just string testing. I would even go so far as to say that if this function returns true, you wouldn’t need to sanitize it before sending it into the database.

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