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Confirming an email on a e-commerce site, complete strategy

We are designing a e-commerce site, that requires email verification to create an account. The account is useful only for the check out (where name, phone, email are needed) and viewing the ...
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Should the user be logged in when clicking on the verify email link?

I have a webapp with signp/signin User does a signup with email password or a sign in via Google Twitter Facebook or GitHub If user is new, then an email is sent to this user to verify their email ...
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Are "Thank You for Unsubscribing to our Newsletter" emails necessary?

I am about to disable the "Send a Thank You for Unsubscribing to our Newsletter" message for some of our clients as I think it's superfluous and unnecessary. My suggestion was to have an Unsubscribe ...
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Sending confirmation email to survey participant [closed]

When a participant finishes their survey, I would like to send them an email confirmation that they responses to the survey was successfully saved. I'm kind of stuck at the write-up of this ...
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How to Handle User Email Confirmation After User Becomes a Paying Customer And Doesn't Confirm Email

I'm rebuilding my "confirm email" system when a user signs up or changes their email. Websites like Facebook require an email be confirmed each time it is changed, so I have implemented the same. ...
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Best way to handle new user registration when email verification is required

I'm building a new web app that requires email verification. I'm looking to all you UX experts (I'm more of a back end developer) to guide me. So, the user has just signed up. I'm taking them now to ...
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What's the best approach to confirm user email address: sending an email confirmation link or sending a verification code in email?

I see there are number of questions available there about approach for confirming email address with pretty good answers. I have a similar question I can think of two approaches for confirming email ...
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Is a captcha necessary when email validation is being utilised?

During registration for my new website, I'm going to require that a link is clicked in a confirmation email before a new user has full privileges. Is this a good way to remove spammers/bots, or do you ...
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Asking for Password After Email Validation?

I do not want to discuss the pros and cons of email validation, but want to know if there are potential downsides (security and otherwise) to user entering his password only after he has already ...
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Do they need to confirm their email... twice?

My site sends reminder emails to users 2-5 years in the future. Users log in via a 3rd party API. The third party gives me the name, email, phone, etc. of the user when they log into my site. What I ...
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Loss conversions due to email misspelling?

I'm wondering if there are any stats related to how important it is to have an "Confirm Email" field. For something like newsletter signups, I regularly see a single email input field. I'm sure it ...
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When unsubscribing from e-mail subscription services, do users need a confirmation e-mail?

When we sign up for a new service, it’s not uncommon to tick the checkbox “weekly digest e-mail” or “newsletter” and that sort of thing. In the beginning, we’re excited about our new service, but, as ...
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Email: to confirm or not to confirm....that is the question.

I am toying with the sign up process on my website. User email addresses are not critical in the sense that there is no e-commerce on the site. Its a social networking type site for my colleagues. ...
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Password confirmation vs. email confirmation

Is it more advisable to ask a confirmation to the email or a confirmation to the password in a website registration form? I'm asking this because I saw this blog post that was featured on Hacker News ...
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Email confirmation on password reset?

I am building a prototype to a system that has a user account system in place. Of course with any account system, the user should be able to reset their password should the need arise (e.g., ...
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Limiting access before email address is confirmed

I'm making a directory site and I'm considering having the following setup for email confirmation: After registering, user has x hours to confirm their email. They're sent immediately to the next ...
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Alternatives to underlining an email address to signify MS Outlook "Check Names" feature

MS Outlook has a feature called Check Names that converts an email address to a full name, underlines it, and makes it uneditable (aside from deleting the resolved name). Some of my font enthusiasts ...
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Is two-field confirmation for emails or passwords user-friendly? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why should we ask the password twice during registration? It is a very common pattern to require a user to enter things like an email address, or - more importantly - a not-...