title: How do i remove email validation in Magento 1.7 Admin area
body: <p>The core Magento email validation script I find does not work and continually blocks perfectly good email addresses - I have comment out the validation class in most forms: 
         <code>&lt;input type="text" name="email" class="input-text validate-email required-entry" /&gt;</code> </p>
  
  <p>But I'm getting same issue in admin area for instance in the store email address fields:
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/MY1DK.jpg" alt="enter image description here"> </p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to find this form so that i can comment out the validation class - but I cant find it,</p>
  
  <p>the template path is  adminhtml/default/default/template/widget/form.phtml which contains</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;div class="entry-edit"&gt;
      &lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getFormHtml();?&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;?php echo $this-&gt;getChildHtml('form_after');?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>At this point i get a bit lost ?</p>
  
  <p>I have also tried commenting out this in validation.js :</p>
  
  <pre><code>   //['validate-email', 'Please enter a valid email address. For example johndoe@domain.com.', function (v) {
                  //return Validation.get('IsEmpty').test(v) || /\w{1,}[@][\w\-]{1,}([.]([\w\-]{1,})){1,3}$/.test(v)
                  //return Validation.get('IsEmpty').test(v) || /^[\!\#$%\*/?|\^\{\}`~&amp;\'\+\-=_a-z0-9][\!\#$%\*/?|\^\{\}`~&amp;\'\+\-=_a-z0-9\.]{1,30}[\!\#$%\*/?|\^\{\}`~&amp;\'\+\-=_a-z0-9]@([a-z0-9_-]{1,30}\.){1,5}[a-z]{2,4}$/i.test(v)
                 // return Validation.get('IsEmpty').test(v) || /^([a-z0-9,!\#\$%&amp;'\*\+\/=\?\^_`\{\|\}~-]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+(\.([a-z0-9,!\#\$%&amp;'\*\+\/=\?\^_`\{\|\}~-]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+)*@([a-z0-9-]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+(\.([a-z0-9-]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+)*\.(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF]){2,})$/i.test(v)
              //}],
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I still get validation message at top of form saying please enter valid email address.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated </p>