Disable Email Verification

[Stephen]

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Remove email verification

Email verification can’t be disabled. You might not understand why, but you actually want and need email address verification. Email is central to Discourse. Email addresses are considered as personally identifying information. You have a legal responsibility to verify that the address is owned by the user in question before storing it in your database. If a user were to enter the wrong email address either accidentally (or intentionally) you would otherwise end up sending email address to a u…