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[brylie]

Regarding registering with a validation email, a comment points out that:

if someone tries to create an account using an email that they don't own, it still actually "creates" the account in the db... it's just set to inactive. Then if the real owner of that email tries to sign up, it would say "an account with that email already exists." What happens is there is a problem with the activation link becoming invalid - in this case it would not let them retry creating the account because it already exists?

Should the proposed solution for validating registration emails be reconsidered?