I%u2019ve no scientific research either, but when I observed users
filling in a form with two email fields, I saw several times that
people filled out the first field correctly, got annoyed with the
fact that they had to retype their address and made a typo in the
second field as a result of that.

Asking a user to retype the email address tells implicitly that you
find your users not smart enough to fill out your form.

In my designs I always choose for just one email field. When a
correct email address is really important for the following
procedure, I add a line of text below the field asking: %u2018Please
verify if your email address is entered correctly%u2019. I use
JavaScript to check if the entered email address has a valid format.
Additionally you could verify the email address in a smtp session,
but you will never get a 100% validation.



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