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Everyone knows what an email address is, right? (Quiz) (e-mail.wtf)
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[–] who@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Use a library

Please, no. If someone wrote email address "validation" complex enough to warrant a library, then their code is almost certainly wrong.

or check for only the @ and then send an email confirmation.

Yes. Do that.

If your boss demands a more detailed check at input time, then make it display warnings, not errors, and continue to the confirmation sending step if the user chooses to ignore the warning.