What is the best Java email address validation method? [closed]

Answer 1

Using the official java email package is the easiest:

public static boolean isValidEmailAddress(String email) {
   boolean result = true;
   try {
      InternetAddress emailAddr = new InternetAddress(email);
      emailAddr.validate();
   } catch (AddressException ex) {
      result = false;
   }
   return result;
}

Answer 2

What do you want to validate? The email address?

The email address can only be checked for its format conformance. See the standard: RFC2822. Best way to do that is a regular expression. You will never know if really exists without sending an email.

I checked the commons validator. It contains an org.apache.commons.validator.EmailValidator class. Seems to be a good starting point.

Answer 3

Apache Commons validator can be used as mentioned in the other answers.

pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>commons-validator</groupId>
    <artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.1</version>
</dependency>

build.gradle:

compile 'commons-validator:commons-validator:1.4.1'

The import:

import org.apache.commons.validator.routines.EmailValidator;

The code:

String email = "myName@example.com";
boolean valid = EmailValidator.getInstance().isValid(email);

and to allow local addresses

boolean allowLocal = true;
boolean valid = EmailValidator.getInstance(allowLocal).isValid(email);

Answer 4

public class Validations {

    private Pattern regexPattern;
    private Matcher regMatcher;

    public String validateEmailAddress(String emailAddress) {

        regexPattern = Pattern.compile("^[(a-zA-Z-0-9-\\_\\+\\.)]+@[(a-z-A-z)]+\\.[(a-zA-z)]{2,3}$");
        regMatcher   = regexPattern.matcher(emailAddress);
        if(regMatcher.matches()) {
            return "Valid Email Address";
        } else {
            return "Invalid Email Address";
        }
    }

    public String validateMobileNumber(String mobileNumber) {
        regexPattern = Pattern.compile("^\\+[0-9]{2,3}+-[0-9]{10}$");
        regMatcher   = regexPattern.matcher(mobileNumber);
        if(regMatcher.matches()) {
            return "Valid Mobile Number";
        } else {
            return "Invalid Mobile Number";
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String emailAddress = "suryaprakash.pisay@gmail.com";
        String mobileNumber = "+91-9986571622";
        Validations validations = new Validations();
        System.out.println(validations.validateEmailAddress(emailAddress));
        System.out.println(validations.validateMobileNumber(mobileNumber));
    }
}

Answer 5

You may also want to check for the length - emails are a maximum of 254 chars long. I use the apache commons validator and it doesn't check for this.

Answer 6

Late answer, but I think it is simple and worthy:

    public boolean isValidEmailAddress(String email) {
           String ePattern = "^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+@((\\[[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\.[0-9]{1,3}\\])|(([a-zA-Z\\-0-9]+\\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$";
           java.util.regex.Pattern p = java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(ePattern);
           java.util.regex.Matcher m = p.matcher(email);
           return m.matches();
    }

Test Cases:

For production purpose, Domain Name validations should be performed network-wise.