Cater for ZWSP characters in ValidateEmailAddress

utils/utils.go

@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ func ValidateEmailAddress(email string) (string, error) {
 	cleanEmail := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(email))
 	cleanEmail = string_utils.RemoveAllWhiteSpaces(cleanEmail)
 
+	// Remove ZWSP ("\u200B") characters with an empty string to remove it
+	cleanEmail = strings.ReplaceAll(cleanEmail, "\u200B", "")
+
 	// We validate it but still return it since in some cases we don't want to break everything if the email is bad
 	_, err := mail.ParseAddress(cleanEmail)
 	if err != nil {