Laravel at least one field is valid

Question

I have an array with two relevant keys where at least one of both shall contain a valid email address.

$data = [
 'mail' => 'firstname.lastname#tld.com',
 'mail2' => 'firstname.lastname@tld.com',
 ...
]

I've tried a validation using the exclude_with method, which works if the mail field is invalid, but mail2 is valid. However, it doesn't vice versa.

$validated = Validator::make($data, [
    'mail' => 'exclude_with:mail|email',
    'mail2' => 'exclude_with:mail2|email',
])->validate();

I could do this easily with other PHP methods or regular expressions, but I wonder if this is archivable with Laravel's validator.

The goal is to get at least one field with a valid email or fail.

Update

Based on Abdulla's promising answer, I found that even if the first email is valid but the second is not, the validation fails:

$data = [
     'mail' => 'firstname.lastname@tld.com', // correct
     'mail2' => 'firstname.lastname#tld.com' // wrong
 ];

 $validator = Validator::make($data, [
     'mail' => 'exclude_unless:mail2,null|email',
     'mail2' => 'exclude_unless:mail,null|email',
 ]);

Output:

The mail2 must be a valid email address.

Abdulla Nilam · Answer

Use exclude_unless() in Laravel

It was tested with these two examples. (You can swap array positions too). And removed ->validate() as well

One valid and one invalid Email (as per in the question)

 $data = [
     'mail' => 'firstname.lastname#tld.com', // wrong 
     'mail2' => 'firstname.lastname@tld.com' // correct
 ];

 $validator = Validator::make($data, [
     'mail' => 'exclude_unless:mail2,null|email',
     'mail2' => 'exclude_unless:mail,null|email',
 ]);

 if ($validator->fails()) {
     $messages = $validator->messages();
     foreach ($messages->all() as $message)
     {
         echo $message;
     }
     die();
 }
 echo "pass";
 die();

Output was

Both invalid emails

 $data = [
     'mail' => 'firstname.lastname#tld.com', // wrong 
     'mail2' => 'firstname.lastname#tld.com' // wrong 
 ];

 $validator = Validator::make($data, [
     'mail' => 'exclude_unless:mail2,null|email',
     'mail2' => 'exclude_unless:mail,null|email',
 ]);

 if ($validator->fails()) {
     $messages = $validator->messages();
     foreach ($messages->all() as $message)
     {
         echo $message;
     }
     die();
 }
 echo "pass";
 die();

Output

customize the error message to a standard message such as "At least one Email should be valid".

Laravel at least one field is valid

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