Martin Lormes

If a comment is held for moderation an email message is sent to the comment author with a link to verify the comment author’s email address. When the comment author clicks on that link the comment gets approved immediately. This makes discussions more lively as users don’t have to wait for the blog admin to approve the comment.
Blog owners may also choose to hold the comments in the moderation queue even after successful verification. The verification status is shown in the comment lists in the admin.
If an author has a previously approved comment and his comments gets approved automatically according to the ‘comment_whitelist’ option in WordPress no email is sent.
If a comment is classified as spam by Akismet or another anti-spam plugin no email is sent.
This plugin uses the <code>commentmeta</code> table and thus requires WordPress 2.9
PHP5 strongly recommended

Comment E-Mail Verification

Wish it supported embedded html in the verification email. One note. You must have Settings -> Discussion -> Comment must be manually approved checked in order for it to work. Once I figured that out, it works just fine.

Still works

If a comment is held for moderation an email message is sent to the comment author with a link to verify the comment author's email address.

zerobounce

Need an email validation tool to block invalid and high-risk emails on your WordPress website?
The ZeroBounce email verification plugin assists users by validating email addresses entered into your registration forms, comments sections, eCommerce shops, and more. Install the plugin, connect your API key, and select the forms you want to monitor with email validation.
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automated real-time email validation – Automatically prevent selected email types from creating accounts, leaving comments, or signing up</li>
<li>Detect more than 30+ email address types – Including invalid, abuse, disposable, spam trap, toxic domains, catch-all, and more</li>
<li>Choose what to accept – Create your own rules for email validation and disallow emails based on status</li>
<li>Email verification for 9 form types – Easily select which forms you want to protect with email validation</li>
<li>Fast manual email validation – Verify any email address in the tools section using our interactive form</li>
<li>Email validation API logs – Keep track of monthly email verifications, including status, sub-status, IP, date, and credits used</li>
</ul>
<h3>Benefits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Keep your email list clean & accurate</li>
<li>Reduce your email bounce rate</li>
<li>Boost your inbox placement</li>
<li>Protect your email sender reputation</li>
<li>Improve email deliverability</li>
<li>Eliminate fraudulent, untrustworthy shoppers</li>
<li>Block spammers and spoofers</li>
<li>Keep your comments section clean</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Forms/Plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li>Contact Form 7</li>
<li>WPForms</li>
<li>Ninja Forms</li>
<li>Formidable Forms</li>
<li>WooCommerce</li>
<li>WordPress Post Comments</li>
<li>WordPress Registration</li>
<li>MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress</li>
<li>Gravity Forms</li>
<li>Fluent Forms</li>
<li>WS Forms</li>
<li>Mailster Forms</li>
<li>Forminator Forms</li>
</ul>
And more support is being added gradually.

ZeroBounce Email Verification & Validation


I have tested this plugin on several of my personal and business websites, it's awesome. No more spam and fake signups. Service pricing is also decent. Recommended.


Excellent in blocking SPAM


You have a problem with NF form validation. It detects html fields that contains emails (eg mailto links) as email fields and validates those.



if (!empty($value) && is_string($value) && preg_match('/@.+\./', $value) && !str_contains($value, "\n") && !str_contains($value, '\n')) {// rest of the code}



Your approach needs to be changed to:



if (!empty($value) && is_string($value) && preg_match('/@.+\./', $value) && !preg_match('/mailto:/i', $value)) {  $ninjaForm = new Zerobounce_Email_Validator_Form_Public('ninjaforms', $form_data['id']);   // rest of the code}



This should be safer to validate only email addresses (or use a better regex).


Ninja Forms problem

ZeroBounce validates emails on your WordPress site in real-time, blocking invalid and risky emails to improve deliverability and reduce bounce rates.

Comment E-Mail Verification vs ZeroBounce Email Verification & Validation