Validate email regular expression bug in WordPress and other CMSs

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1. ikkr (1 comments.) says:

   2/21/2005 at 8:58 am

   rtr
2. Phillip Harrington (1 comments.) says:

   1/21/2004 at 11:28 am

   I’ve always used these two in conjunction. The first one we don’t want, and the second one we do want.

   (@.*@)|(\.\.)|(@\.)|(\.@)|(^\.)

   ^.+\@(\[?)[-a-zA-Z0-9\.]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$

   Picked this up somewhere, and it seems to accept the + sign.
3. Scott says:

   3/1/2004 at 11:57 am

   used it and it wouldnt accept any emails even valid ones.
4. Mark (14 comments.) says:

   3/2/2004 at 9:42 am

   which expression are you talking about?