diff --git a/lib/db/json.js b/lib/db/json.js
index 376a2a791cae9a968949a202772df5c2193d552f..34cb13b3e0a9f7e43a110b7ebc34f36fb9cd0193 100644
--- a/lib/db/json.js
+++ b/lib/db/json.js
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ function addEmailToAccount(userID, email, type, cb) {
     sync();
     var emails = jsel.match(":has(.id:expr(x="+ ESC(userID) +")) > .emails", db.users);
     if (emails && emails.length > 0) {
-      emails[0][email] = { type: type };
+      emails[0][email] = { type: type, verified: true };
       flush();
     }
     cb(null);
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ exports.stageEmail = function(existing_user, new_email, hash, cb) {
 
 exports.createUserWithPrimaryEmail = function(email, cb) {
   var emailVal = { };
-  emailVal[email] = { type: 'primary' };
+  emailVal[email] = { type: 'primary', verified: true };
   var uid = getNextUserID();
   db.users.push({
     id: uid,
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ exports.gotVerificationSecret = function(secret, cb) {
     exports.emailKnown(o.email, function(err, known) {
       function createAccount() {
         var emailVal = {};
-        emailVal[o.email] = { type: 'secondary' };
+        emailVal[o.email] = { type: 'secondary', verified: true };
         var uid = getNextUserID();
         var hash = o.passwd;
         db.users.push({
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ exports.addTestUser = function(email, hash, cb) {
   sync();
   removeEmailNoCheck(email, function() {
     var emailVal = {};
-    emailVal[email] = { type: 'secondary' };
+    emailVal[email] = { type: 'secondary', verified: true };
     db.users.push({
       id: getNextUserID(),
       password: hash,
diff --git a/lib/db/mysql.js b/lib/db/mysql.js
index f9d37b753a33d1c05ca30d775060a8201156e550..b1461c3042cccdc0190e130bb92625a7c13bfa02 100644
--- a/lib/db/mysql.js
+++ b/lib/db/mysql.js
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ const schemas = [
     "user BIGINT NOT NULL," +
     "address VARCHAR(255) UNIQUE NOT NULL," +
     "type ENUM('secondary', 'primary') DEFAULT 'secondary' NOT NULL," +
+    "verified BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE NOT NULL, " +
     "FOREIGN KEY user_fkey (user) REFERENCES user(id)" +
     ") ENGINE=InnoDB;",
 
@@ -331,7 +332,6 @@ function addEmailToUser(userID, email, type, cb) {
     });
 }
 
-
 exports.gotVerificationSecret = function(secret, cb) {
   client.query(
     "SELECT * FROM staged WHERE secret = ?", [ secret ],
@@ -471,18 +471,20 @@ exports.updatePassword = function(uid, hash, cb) {
  */
 exports.listEmails = function(uid, cb) {
   client.query(
-    'SELECT address, type FROM email WHERE user = ?',
+    'SELECT address, type, verified FROM email WHERE user = ?',
       [ uid ],
       function (err, rows) {
         if (err) cb(err);
         else {
           var emails = {};
 
-          // eventually we'll have fields in here
-          for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++)
-            emails[rows[i].address] = {
-              type: rows[i].type
-            };
+          for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {
+            var o = { type: rows[i].type };
+            if (o.type === 'secondary') {
+              o.verified = rows[i].verified;           
+            }
+            emails[rows[i].address] = o;
+          }
 
           cb(null,emails);
         }
diff --git a/tests/list-emails-wsapi-test.js b/tests/list-emails-wsapi-test.js
index 037bed0b812225b6618a231c75f94ec25e12bf33..0eb3449b7461b485b3ddb31f1cd1e5a7898d272b 100755
--- a/tests/list-emails-wsapi-test.js
+++ b/tests/list-emails-wsapi-test.js
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ suite.addBatch({
       var emails = Object.keys(respObj);
       assert.equal(emails[0], "syncer@somehost.com");
       assert.equal(respObj[emails[0]].type, "secondary");
+      assert.equal(respObj[emails[0]].verified, true);
       assert.equal(emails.length, 1);
     }
   }