[WW-4395] Make email validator regex comply with RFC 6531

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.16.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.6
• Component/s: Core Actions
• Labels: email regex validation
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Miguel Almeida
• Created: 25/Aug/14 16:06
• Updated: 28/Feb/18 10:04

Description

This is the regex for email validation in Struts:

\\b^['_a-z0-9-\\+]+(\\.['_a-z0-9-\\+]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\\.[a-z0-9-]+)\*
\.([a-z]{2}|aero|arpa|asia|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|jobs|mil|mobi|
museum|name|nato|net|org|pro|tel|travel|xxx)$\\b

This doesn't allow special characters (e.g. àéí, äëö,...).

However, International characters above U+007F are permitted by RFC 6531

Because some mail servers seem to follow this standard, regex should be improved to allow email addresses valid according to this standard.