[arkitaip]

Please do. I hate getting transactional email intended for someone else because the devs don't verify email addresses. It doesn't even mean you have to do verification early in the onboarding process, but definitely before you start sending any email.

[readonthegoapp]

This actually sounds like a good solution.

That is, you want to allow people to stroll in and start using your app.

Great.

But just don't send out any emails on their behalf unless/until they've clicked the verification link in the one email you will send to them.

This makes me think - should there be a link in the email that says, "This was not me" -- that allows the website dev to ban the offending IP?

[arkitaip]

> This makes me think - should there be a link in the email that says, "This was not me" -- that allows the website dev to ban the offending IP?

Maybe not ban the IP but definitely remove the email from the account (after a confirmation CTA). Some services do this and if I known them I hit the link.

[Jtsummers]

Yep. I snagged a gmail address early on without numbers. I get lots of emails for people with similar initials to mine but who have some number after the name. None of them had verification messages that I could have rejected (and those that did, I safely ignored and never got spammed by).

[mttrms]

same here - got my full (common enough) name while gmail was in closed invite-only beta.

I get a ton of emails for others on a weekly basis with a ton of info not meant for me to see.

One specific account "I" signed up for was a playstation account that actually prevented me from signing up for my own account. It took ~1hr of live chat with Sony to actually create an account with my email address.

(And yes I am aware I can add additional periods or +keyword to the email)

[dmarlow]

The best is when these transactional emails don't have a way to unsubscribe (thanks Comcast).