diff --git a/www/lib/CoreLibs/Basic.inc b/www/lib/CoreLibs/Basic.inc
index 8c595848..1c5dd540 100644
--- a/www/lib/CoreLibs/Basic.inc
+++ b/www/lib/CoreLibs/Basic.inc
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ class Basic
 		}
 
 		// set the regex for checking emails
-		$this->email_regex = "^[A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+-\/=?^_`{|}~][A-Za-z0-9!#$%:\(\)&'*+-\/=?^_`{|}~\.]{0,63}@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]{1,})*\.([a-zA-Z]{2,}){1}$";
+		$this->email_regex = "^[A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\-\/=?^_`{|}~][A-Za-z0-9!#$%:\(\)&'*+\-\/=?^_`{|}~\.]{0,63}@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-]{1,})*\.([a-zA-Z]{2,}){1}$";
 		// this is for error check parts in where the email regex failed
 		$this->email_regex_check = array (
 			1 => "@(.*)@(.*)", // double @