Disable valid email format check on registration

[beltane]

I'd greatly appreciate any help on this! I'm trying to do a mass import into vB from my existing user database. I've written a script to cycle through them using the datamanager, and all is working fine.

Problem is, when it hits an email that is in an incorrect format (for email, user@hotmail - missing the .com), the whole thing aborts and stops at that user.

There are too many records to fix them by hand, and I can't think of a good way to track them down via an SQL query (as I did for the ones with no email).

Is there a way to disable the check temporarily while I run the import, I'm happy to comment out code etc if it's not in the admin panel.

Thank you!