How to make Validator unique on soft delete?

Question

Laravel

Hello!
Added soft deletion of users. It works, but unique doesn't care about the deleted_at column.
'email' => 'required|email|unique:users,email',
Is it possible to somehow add a condition to it to skip email when the deleted_at field is not null.
Or will you have to delete this rule and make a query to the database yourself for the search?

Answer 1

The rule works as it should. Imagine what will happen if you restore a deleted user, and E-mail is busy.
You need soft-deleted users after a certain period of time to delete forever.