I've looked into this before.  The email validator resolved down to some
really old code in XWork with a regex that looked something like this:

[a-z0-...@[a-z0-9].[a-z]^3

I strongly agree with Dave's advice.  Broken email validators are too common
on the web.

-Brian


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Dave Newton <davelnew...@gmail.com> wrote:

> IIRC the default email validator isn't as robust as the page- long RFC
> email
> regex. I'd suggest either a patch, ora custom validator.
>
> Dave
>  On Dec 13, 2010 12:11 PM, "Greg Akins" <angryg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just tried to use angrygreg+...@gmail.com <angrygreg%2b...@gmail.com><
> angrygreg%2b...@gmail.com <angrygreg%252b...@gmail.com>> as
> an email , and the
> > Struts EmailValidator doesn't like it (Struts 2.2.1)
> >
> > I'm not that great at reading regexp.. it looks like maybe the regexp
> > should support that email address.. but I'm not sure.
> >
> > Can anyone comment on whether EmailValidator is the best approach?
> >
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