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That same problem can happen even without dots. People can simply mistype their email and have it be your email. That happens if even if neither of you have dot
by Buge 9y ago
That same problem can happen even without dots. People can simply mistype their email and have it be your email. That happens if even if neither of you have dots in your email.
- mulmen 9y agoSo then send the verification email at signup and any time the user changes the stored email on their account. Am I missing something?
- Buge 9y agoI agree that's the answer. Unfortunately many services out there (including Netflix apparently) don't do that.
- sorahn 9y agoYou’re not missing anything, but if gmail delivers all the mail, and I just trash it, we’ve fixed the symptoms, but not the problem, and we’ve made the problem invisible. I agree that sending verification emails should be the standard. But if I can’t bounce the emails then there isn’t even the slightest way to inform the sending service that there might be a problem.