diff --git a/src/__tests__/string.test.ts b/src/__tests__/string.test.ts
index bc603a933..ff535ea9a 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/string.test.ts
+++ b/src/__tests__/string.test.ts
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ test("email validations", () => {
     `something@subdomain.domain-with-hyphens.tld`,
     `common'name@domain.com`,
     `francois@etu.inp-n7.fr`,
+	`exam&ple&test@gmail.com`,
   ];
   const invalidEmails = [
     // no "printable characters"
@@ -150,6 +151,10 @@ test("email validations", () => {
     `invalid@[IPv6:5348:4ed3:5d38:67fb:e9b:acd2:c13:192.168.256.1]`,
     `test@.com`,
     `aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalongemailthatcausesregexDoSvulnerability@test.c`,
+	`example&&test@g&mail.com`,
+	`exampletest@g&mail.com`,
+	`&example&&test@g&mail&.com`,
+	`example&&test@g&mail&.com&`,
   ];
   const emailSchema = z.string().email();
 
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index 98281ff2f..1a1cec467 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -657,8 +657,10 @@ const durationRegex =
 //   /^[a-zA-Z0-9\.\!\#\$\%\&\'\*\+\/\=\?\^\_\`\{\|\}\~\-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$/;
 // const emailRegex =
 //   /^(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])$/i;
+//const emailRegex =
+//  /^(?!\.)(?!.*\.\.)([A-Z0-9_'+\-\.]*)[A-Z0-9_+-]@([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9\-]*\.)+[A-Z]{2,}$/i;
 const emailRegex =
-  /^(?!\.)(?!.*\.\.)([A-Z0-9_'+\-\.]*)[A-Z0-9_+-]@([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9\-]*\.)+[A-Z]{2,}$/i;
+  /^(?!\.)(?!.*\.\.)(?!.*&&)(?!&)(?!.*&$)([A-Z0-9_'+\-\.&]*)[A-Z0-9_+-]@([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9\-]*\.)+[A-Z]{2,}$/i;
 // const emailRegex =
 //   /^[a-z0-9.!#$%&’*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-z0-9-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9\-]+)*$/i;