Hi all. I noticed that the built-in Struts2 email validator is too strict with characters it allowd. In my case, it was preventing me from using Gmail's trick with the plus sign. (If I have the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED], I can add a plus sign and any additional text, and it all gets "forwarded" to my example account. So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, etc. all go to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] account.)
Unfortunately, the email validator only allows letters, numbers, '.', '-', and '_'. I went ahead and substituted a new regex in the <param> element in my validator.xml, but I think we should expand the allowable characters in the default pattern. Here's a useful post I found regarding the issue: http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx Thoughts? Tobin
