Best practices for email address validation (including the + in gmail addresses)

Question

I know there are a lot of questions on here about email validation and specific RegEx\'s. I\'d like to know what the best practices are for validating emails with respect to hav

Answer 1

I would tend to go with something along the lines of /.+@.+\..+/ to check for simple mistakes. Then I would send an email to the address to verify that it actually exists, since most typos will still result in syntactically valid email addresses.