Opinion on verifying email..

[snowboardr]

What is the best way to verify and email, what do you send as a "vefication" code to the user..etc?

I think the way I did it works pretty nicley, but was wondering what you all use. www.vzio.com
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[snowboardr]

Does anyone use email verification? www.vzio.com
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[Funka]

i use a regular expression to validate that the user has entered their email address in a valid format (the code for this function is below). if you are looking to verify that the email address they give you is actually theirs, then perhaps you could generate a random password with a link, and then email them, and set up a receving page to log the fact they have responded to the generated email, and thus have given you a legitimate address.

good luck!

Function isEmail(theEmail)
    With New RegExp
        .Pattern = "^\w+((-\w+)|(\.\w+))*\@[A-Za-z0-9]+((\.|-)[A-Za-z0-9]+)*\.[A-Za-z0-9]+$"
        .IgnoreCase = True
        .Global = True
        If .Test(theEmail) Then
            isEmail = True
        Else
            isEmail = False
        End If
    End With
End Function

p.s. the stupid smiley face |-) should be replaced with "- )" without the space in between. (lame tek-tip feature, huh?)
i.e., the regexp should look like this, with NO SPACES (spaces inserted here to prevent auto-smiley)

^\w+((-\w+)|(\.\w+))*\@[A-Za-z0-9]+((\.| - )[A-Za-z0-9]+)*\.[A-Za-z0-9]+$

 

[snowboardr]

you can put [ code ] [ / code ] around your code and it wont show smiles. Or you can uncheck - Emoticons

Thanks for your input, I was mainly talking about verifing that the email is theirs..

I use a component, called dynu and it has encryption in it, so I email a link like...

/verify?email=jbo@vzio.com&v=15A6A39CC18D7535AB14CFB871C69C24B2F5A07D30AB6DA3

And the code is there userID encrypted...

Works great.
www.vzio.com
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