Laravel email validation quality

This results make me wondering. Why is test@test validated as a correct email adress?

      $validator = Validator::make(['visitorEmail' => "[email protected]"], [
            'visitorEmail' => 'email',
        ]);
        if ($validator->fails()) {
            dd('wrong format');
        } else {
            dd('correct format');
        }

Test:

[email protected] => correct format

test@@test.com => wrong format

test@test => correct format

33test@test33 => correct format

[email protected] => correct format

tisuchi

6 years ago

Level 70

Its because email just validates whether the given information a valid email format or not. It doesn't check whether the email address is exists or not.

So, here a valid email can be any string before and after the @ symbol.

For example-

test@test or [email protected]

But when you provide test@@test.com it will return false because in an email format it cannot have two 2 symbols.

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