ActionErrors and ActionMessages

[burnayev]

I'm trying to validate a sign in form with 2 fileds: email and password.

I'm using standard "required" and "email" validators to check the validity of the email. As far as I can tell from the debugger output all the errors are added under org.apache.struts.action.ERROR key like this:
org.apache.struts.action.ERROR={email=[errors.required]}

The email should exist in the database so there's a verification in SignInAction for that. If the email doesn't exist I add the respecitve ActionMessage
(as ActionError is deprecated):
ActionMessages errors = new ActionMessages();
errors.add("email", new ActionMessage("error.login.not.found"));
saveMessages(request, errors);

This guy is added under org.apache.struts.action.ACTION_MESSAGE key as follows:
org.apache.struts.action.ACTION_MESSAGE={email=[error.login.not.found[]]}

So, when I want to display both errors near my email input field I have to do this:

<!-- deprecated but short and sweet
html:errors property="email" header="errors.header.inline" footer="errors.footer.inline" prefix="errors.prefix.inline" suffix="errors.suffix.inline" /-->

<html:messages id="emailError" property="email">
<span class="error">
<bean:write name="emailError" />
&nbsp;
</span>
</html:messages>
<html:messages id="emailError2" property="email" message="true">
<span class="error">
<bean:write name="emailError2" />
&nbsp;
</span>
</html:messages>

It doesn't look quite efficient.

Here's a bunch of questions:
1. Am I missing a way of telling html:messages to pick up both errors and messages?
2. Am I missing a way of converting standard validation errors to messages so that they are added upder org.apache.struts.action.ACTION_MESSAGE and are picked up by html:messages with message="true"?
3. ValidatorForm.validate returns ActionErrors and is not deprecated. I don't get it. Can someone enlighten me on that?

I'm on Struts 1.2.8.

Thanks,
Borys