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I'm as anti-hassle as it gets, but I think email validation actually makes sense. If a company NEEDS my email address for communication, go on and verify if it works and an overly eager spam filter inbetween does not eats everything up. Or if, god forbid, I accidentally put a comma instead of a period somewhere while typing.

If they don't care whether I can be reached by that email address, why even bother asking for one?

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For example to send forgotten password ;)

If user enters a real email - he will get a new password in that case. If not... well, it's his problem.

I have a funny feeling you do not charge money for stuff. When regina123@aoll.com can't log in after paying $30 for the privilege to do so, it is my problem.

This was a problem I ran into. Originally my application did not require an email, but I ran into so many forgotten password cases that I eventually had to add one. And I felt it was my responsibility to help those users as most apps have that feature and usernames can be easy to forget.

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