I understand that.. and my site is set up that way.. but my point is where one would send out a email to them at a later time.. AFTER they verified their email though this process.. Peoples emails do over time become invalid, and if I get a bounce back on a member that has closed an email account, I want to be able to flag their account to update the system with a new email... [!--quoteo(post=385146:date=Jun 17 2006, 07:23 PM:name=Fyorl)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Fyorl @ Jun 17 2006, 07:23 PM) [snapback]385146[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--] A lot of email verification systems use an authentication token. It's generated randomly and then a link is sent in the email. The user follows the link which gives a script the authentication token, the script then checks whether the token is associated with anyone in the database in which case it validates the user. That way, if someone enters an undeliverable address, they will never receive the email and so will be unable to validate their account. Then whenever they try to access the site they're prompted for either the activation code or a correct email address. [/quote]