From: Kai Krueger Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:26:04 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Trust Google and Yahoo to return valid email addresses X-Git-Tag: live~6624 X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/commitdiff_plain/104727f889aaf31f917c8243014b161732b6e351?hp=104727f889aaf31f917c8243014b161732b6e351 Trust Google and Yahoo to return valid email addresses Both Google and Yahoo guarantee that the email address they return during the OpenID authentication are emails that they have already verified: http://stackoverflow.com/q/5639419 Therefore special case these OpenID providers and automatically activate the new users account without requiring a separate email verification step. This therefore reduces the signup procedure by one step and makes it easier for new users of these OpenID providers, which cover the majority of users. ---