Email validation Q

Hi all,

I've searched the archives and open tickets, but perhaps I've missed
something obvious...

I'm using Cake 2.0.5, and I've got a model with the following:

public $validate = array(
'notify_on_provision' => array(
'rule' => 'email',
'required' => false
),
[various other rules that work fine]
);

If I submit a form generated in the corresponding view, the field
fails to validate with "This field cannot be left blank". The problem
under the hood appears to be that in Cake/Utility/Validation::email
the regex comparison fails (fair enough, the entry is blank), which in
turn sets $valid = false in Cake/Model::invalidFields, which causes
the error message.

So... should I be doing something else to allow an email address to be
optional? Or should I file a bug? (If I change the rule to be
something like '/.*/' it works as expected, but then obviously I lose
the email syntax check.)

Thanks!

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