hi,

I was wondering if there was a way to verify a user by sending them an email which they must reply to to be verified as a valid person?? How can you do that in ASP.NET??

Any ideas

Adz - The World is not enough

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Well, you could send them an email that provides a secret link to a page that verifies them as a valid person.

Otherwise, I don't know of a way.

Snib

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snib,

how would you go about doing that??

Adz - The World is not enough

First, you need to send them an email. Use the System.Web.Mail namespace for this. Take a look at the MSDN article on the System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail class.

Within the body of the email you need to provide a link that is unique for that user. Usually, you would provide something that identifies the user on the querystring of the link and also provides some key so that the verification can't be spoofed. You could use a GUID as the key. Save the GUID to the user data, then generate and send the email with the link.

http://www.myserver.com/myWebApp/ver...E-AB265210F43E

Then the verifyUser page reads the userid and guid off the querystring and checks that against the database and changes the user status to "valid".

Peter
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