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by dcm360 217 days ago
> A user may make a typo in the email, and that email might still be a valid email know to work (but for another, unrelated person).

That won't verify. The issuer should check if the request has valid session cookies for the e-mail-address that should be verified. This also implies that it just won't work for any service that uses sessions with a short timeout.