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Re:Introducing Mozilla Persona, An Identity System for the Web by Nic56 on Thursday July 12, 2012 @06:33AM (#4233900)
So in your example, eyedee.me is your email provider, right?

I made a Persona account just now. All I saw happening was that I clicked on a link in a confirmation email. Was there also communication between mozilla and my email provider? (I am with a small ISP who is serving my emails - I have my own domain, so my email address is sthg like [email protected]). What went on behind the curtains, if anything, and why did it work with my small provider right away?

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Re:Introducing Mozilla Persona, An Identity System for the Web by Flimm on Thursday July 12, 2012 @10:36AM (#4234691)
No. The fact that you had to click a link in an email is a workaround. If your email provider did support Persona, you wouldn't have had to do this.

That's the great thing about Persona: it works even when email providers don't support it. However, it works best when they do.

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