I've defined a custom object with an email address data type field. Is there a way to re-use the existing email validation that Salesforce implements? I'd like to do as much validation prior to inserting the record. I can implement my own but would rather re-use.

I've defined a custom object with an email address data type field. Is there a way to re-use the existing email validation that Salesforce implements? I'd like to do as much validation prior to inserting the record. I can implement my own but would rather re-use.