diff --git a/__tests__/email-validation.test.ts b/__tests__/email-validation.test.ts
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+import { EmailValidator } from '../lib/email-validation';
+
+describe('Email Validation', () => {
+  // Comprehensive test scenarios covering 10+ email format cases
+  const validEmailScenarios = [
+    // Standard email formats
+    'user@example.com',
+    'firstname.lastname@example.com',
+    'email@subdomain.example.com',
+    
+    // Special character handling
+    'firstname+lastname@example.com',
+    'email.with.dots@example.com',
+    'email-with-hyphen@example.com',
+    
+    // Numeric and special domain cases
+    'email@123.123.123.123', // IP address domain
+    'email@[123.123.123.123]', // IP in square brackets
+    '1234567890@example.com', // Numeric local part
+    
+    // Complex valid emails
+    '"email with spaces"@example.com',
+    'very.common@example.com',
+    'disposable.style.email.with+symbol@example.com',
+    'other.email-with-hyphen@example.com',
+    'fully-qualified-domain@example.com',
+    'user.name+tag@example.com'
+  ];
+
+  const invalidEmailScenarios = [
+    // Empty and whitespace inputs
+    '',
+    '   ',
+    null as any,
+    undefined as any,
+
+    // Invalid formats
+    'invalid',
+    '@invalid.com',
+    'invalid@',
+    'invalid@.com',
+    'invalid@domain',
+    'invalid@domain.',
+    
+    // Problematic patterns
+    'email@example',
+    'email.@example.com',
+    '.email@example.com',
+    'email..email@example.com',
+    
+    // Special character issues
+    'あいうえお@example.com', // Non-ASCII characters
+    'email@-example.com',
+    'email@example-.com',
+    
+    // Length and dot issues
+    'a'.repeat(65) + '@example.com', // Too long local part
+    'email@' + 'a'.repeat(256) + '.com' // Too long domain
+  ];
+
+  // Validate correct email formats
+  test.each(validEmailScenarios)('validates valid email: %s', (email) => {
+    expect(EmailValidator.validate(email)).toBe(true);
+    expect(EmailValidator.getValidationError(email)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  // Invalidate incorrect email formats
+  test.each(invalidEmailScenarios)('invalidates invalid email: %s', (email) => {
+    expect(EmailValidator.validate(email)).toBe(false);
+    expect(EmailValidator.getValidationError(email)).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  // Normalization tests
+  describe('Email Normalization', () => {
+    test('normalizes emails consistently', () => {
+      expect(EmailValidator.normalize('  User@Example.com  ')).toBe('user@example.com');
+      expect(EmailValidator.normalize('USER@EXAMPLE.COM')).toBe('user@example.com');
+      expect(EmailValidator.normalize('')).toBe('');
+    });
+  });
+
+  // Error message tests
+  describe('Validation Error Messages', () => {
+    test('provides appropriate error messages', () => {
+      expect(EmailValidator.getValidationError('')).toBe('Email is required');
+      expect(EmailValidator.getValidationError('a@b')).toBe('Invalid email format');
+      expect(EmailValidator.getValidationError('a'.repeat(300) + '@example.com')).toBe('Email is too long');
+    });
+  });
+});
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diff --git a/lib/email-validation.ts b/lib/email-validation.ts
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+/**
+ * Comprehensive email validation utility
+ */
+export class EmailValidator {
+  /**
+   * Validate email format with comprehensive checks
+   * @param email - Email address to validate
+   * @returns boolean indicating email validity
+   */
+  static validate(email: string): boolean {
+    // Check for null, undefined, or empty input
+    if (!email) return false;
+
+    // Trim and convert to lowercase
+    const trimmedEmail = email.trim().toLowerCase();
+
+    // Length check (RFC 5321 limits)
+    if (trimmedEmail.length < 3 || trimmedEmail.length > 254) return false;
+
+    // Comprehensive email regex with RFC 5322 standard
+    const emailRegex = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+)*)|(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;
+
+    // Additional validation checks
+    if (!emailRegex.test(trimmedEmail)) return false;
+
+    // Local part length check
+    const [local, domain] = trimmedEmail.split('@');
+    if (local.length > 64 || domain.length > 255) return false;
+
+    // Disallow consecutive dots
+    if (/\.{2,}/.test(trimmedEmail)) return false;
+
+    // Disallow leading/trailing dots in local part
+    if (/^\.|\.@|\.$/.test(local)) return false;
+
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Normalize email for consistent comparison
+   * @param email - Email to normalize
+   * @returns Normalized email
+   */
+  static normalize(email: string): string {
+    return email ? email.trim().toLowerCase() : '';
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Get detailed validation error message
+   * @param email - Email to validate
+   * @returns Error message or null if valid
+   */
+  static getValidationError(email: string): string | null {
+    if (!email) return 'Email is required';
+
+    const trimmedEmail = email.trim().toLowerCase();
+
+    if (trimmedEmail.length < 3) return 'Email is too short';
+    if (trimmedEmail.length > 254) return 'Email is too long';
+
+    if (!this.validate(trimmedEmail)) return 'Invalid email format';
+
+    return null;
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/models/User.ts b/models/User.ts
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+import mongoose from 'mongoose';
+import { EmailValidator } from '../lib/email-validation';
+
+// Define the User schema interface
+export interface IUser extends mongoose.Document {
+  email: string;
+  password: string;
+  // Add other user fields as needed
+}
+
+// Create the User schema
+const UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema<IUser>({
+  email: {
+    type: String,
+    required: [true, 'Email is required'],
+    unique: true, // Database-level unique constraint
+    trim: true,
+    lowercase: true,
+    validate: {
+      validator: function(value: string) {
+        return EmailValidator.validate(value);
+      },
+      message: 'Invalid email format'
+    }
+  },
+  password: {
+    type: String,
+    required: [true, 'Password is required'],
+    // Add password complexity validation if needed
+  }
+}, {
+  timestamps: true,
+  // Ensure case-insensitive unique index
+  indexes: [{ 
+    email: 1 
+  }]
+});
+
+// Pre-save hook to normalize email
+UserSchema.pre('save', function(next) {
+  if (this.isModified('email')) {
+    this.email = EmailValidator.normalize(this.email);
+  }
+  next();
+});
+
+// Custom method to find user by email (case-insensitive)
+UserSchema.statics.findByEmail = function(email: string) {
+  return this.findOne({ email: EmailValidator.normalize(email) });
+};
+
+// Create the User model
+export const User = mongoose.models.User || mongoose.model<IUser>('User', UserSchema);
+
+export default User;
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