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3927 email validation is Strict email validation is incredibly silly. For one thing, the actual specification for email addresses is incredibly vague, allowing damn near anything to count as a valid email. For a second thing, even if the email is syntactically valid, what guarantee do you have that the person who entered it actually gets it? The trivial example is: president@whitehouse.com. While this is a perfectly valid email address, it's rath perlbot <*:##NULL>