laravel/docs — Issue #6: Mention that Email Validator accepts incomplete e-mail addresses
Author: kuzeko
Created: 2011-10-15 11:32:49+00:00
State: open

http://php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.validate.php

<< FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL allows incomplete e-mail addresses to be validated, for examle john@gmail will validate as a proper e-mail address >>

"Plain" hostnames with no dots are valid in email addresses - for example, "me@localhost".