From d248012d8be59bd3e9da71038f53f627f137f6a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Caron <lead2gold@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 19:42:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Single alpha characters for subdomains still identify as a
 valid hostname (#475)

---
 apprise/utils.py   | 5 +++--
 test/test_utils.py | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apprise/utils.py b/apprise/utils.py
index 137fcb45..b08462c9 100644
--- a/apprise/utils.py
+++ b/apprise/utils.py
@@ -246,9 +246,10 @@ def is_hostname(hostname, ipv4=True, ipv6=True, underscore=True):
     #   being able to address services in other stacks, we also allow
     #   underscores in hostnames (if flag is set accordingly)
     # - labels can not exceed 63 characters
+    # - allow single character alpha characters
     allowed = re.compile(
-        r'^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]{1,62}(?<![_-])$' if underscore else
-        r'^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{1,62}(?<!-)$',
+        r'^([a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]{1,62}|[a-z_-])(?<![_-])$' if underscore else
+        r'^([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{1,62}|[a-z-])(?<!-)$',
         re.IGNORECASE,
     )
 
diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index f0c90a0c..f30dadb4 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -605,6 +605,10 @@ def test_is_hostname():
     assert utils.is_hostname(
         '2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334', ipv6=False) is False
 
+    # Test hostnames with a single character hostname
+    assert utils.is_hostname(
+        'cloud.a.example.com', ipv4=False, ipv6=False) == 'cloud.a.example.com'
+
 
 def test_is_ipaddr():
     """