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This validation ignore one exception :

Gmail allows users to enter an arbitrary number of dots .

Therefore these are a valid email addresses :

your......name@gmail.com y.o.u.r...name....@gmail.com

and all resolve to yourname@gmail.com

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m...

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And this is a problem I constantly run into with web services, some throw an error if I use a ., others throw an error if I try to do something like example+note@example.com. I use one or the other to help sort emails. It's even worse when a sign up form accepts an email in the latter format, but the login form does not for some reason. So I have an account with a note added but I cannot login. I had this problem with the Odeon website for a while, eventually had to phone them up and ask them to change my accounts email address to one without a note.

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