# Sending email to activate account?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-to-activate-account/42378>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Abril 11, 2016, 7:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-to-activate-account/42378 "2016-04-11T07:36:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)\
**Post date:** [Abril 11, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-to-activate-account/42378/5 "2016-04-11T16:03:20Z")

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I can understand replying to an email as a method of confirming because:

1. You have received the email which includes some unique element.
2. The reply will reply to a unique email address for that user / or include a “key” in the email headers / message.

To just accept an email without any “key” (currently a unique URL) generated by the server does not confirm email address ownership.

Emails are still very easily forged!

The outlined method by OP is not one I would back.

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