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!

[Kirk Y]

Why don't you just use ImpEx?

[beltane]

Thanks, but I'm not trying to import another board, but a custom user management system in my own script. I didn't think you could use the Impex to do that? The datamanager is working fine, I just need it to ignore invalid emails.