There is a Drupal module that verifies emails (http://drupal.org/project/email_verify). I was wondering if it would be possible to incorporate such a system in this module for making sure that there are valid emails before giving people user accounts.

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Robert Castelo’s picture

Robert Castelo CreditAttribution: Robert Castelo commented

Good idea, I'll look into that.

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Robert Castelo CreditAttribution: Robert Castelo commented
Version: 5.x-1.3 » 6.x-1.3

Still a valid feature request, I don't have time to implement it unless someone wants to sponsor it, but someone else might take it on.

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CreditAttribution: gisle at Hannemyr Nye Medier AS commented
Version: 6.x-1.3 » 7.x-3.x-dev
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Personally, I think this just adds bloat to the project. The Email Verify project does a online lookup with full handshake to verify an email address. This is not scale very well when bulk importing user accounts, does not work with placeholder addresses, and breaks if the target computer does not respond for any reason. If there a lot of addresses in the same domain, bulk importing may be mis-interpreted as some sort of DOS-attack.

I prefer User Import to just import the data. If email verification is needed, it should happen independent of this project.

Since nothing has moved here for 11 years, there is not much of a chance that this ever gets implemented – but since Castelo seems to think it a "valid feature request", I am reluctant to close.

Bumping to most recent version.