OIM user email field character restriction

If you are using OIM 9.0.1, then the user's email address field will only accept characters as defined in the below statement.

"The local-part and domain name portions of an e-mail address are restricted to ASCII letters, numbers, underscores, hyphens, and periods. The domain identifier portion of an e-mail address is restricted to ASCII letters and numbers"
(http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B32479_01/doc.903/b32455/componts.htm#CIHCCEAF)

But this restriction is removed in OIM 9.0.2 version. Below regular expression defined the characters allowed in the email address field in version 9.0.2

([\\w!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~])+[@](\\w|[-]|[.])+[.]([a-zA-Z0-9])+

So if you need all those special characters, you will have to make sure you are using 9.0.2 and not 9.0.1.

It is a patch update to upgrade from 9.0.1 to 9.0.2. So it should not be difficult.