diff --git a/.env b/.env
index a98864b..861bce6 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -11,12 +11,10 @@ JWT_ALGORITHM=RS256
 
 CLIENT_ORIGIN=http://localhost:3000
 
-VERIFICATION_SECRET=my-email-verification-secret
-
 EMAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
 EMAIL_PORT=587
-EMAIL_USERNAME=4aeca0c9318dd2
-EMAIL_PASSWORD=a987a0e0eac00d
+EMAIL_USERNAME=41fa1d7c714ab0
+EMAIL_PASSWORD=608f76636315f5
 EMAIL_FROM=admin@admin.com
 
 JWT_PRIVATE_KEY=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
diff --git a/alembic/versions/1c7984990e1d_created_posts_table.py b/alembic/versions/1c7984990e1d_created_posts_table.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 76882a0..0000000
--- a/alembic/versions/1c7984990e1d_created_posts_table.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-"""created_posts_table
-
-Revision ID: 1c7984990e1d
-Revises: 15770e820938
-Create Date: 2022-07-06 23:15:42.761079
-
-"""
-from alembic import op
-import sqlalchemy as sa
-from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql
-
-# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
-revision = '1c7984990e1d'
-down_revision = '15770e820938'
-branch_labels = None
-depends_on = None
-
-
-def upgrade() -> None:
-    # ### commands auto generated by Alembic - please adjust! ###
-    op.create_table('posts',
-    sa.Column('id', postgresql.UUID(), server_default=sa.text('uuid_generate_v4()'), nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('user_id', postgresql.UUID(), nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('title', sa.String(), nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('content', sa.String(), nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('category', sa.String(), nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('image', sa.String(), nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('created_at', sa.TIMESTAMP(timezone=True), server_default=sa.text('now()'), nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('updated_at', sa.TIMESTAMP(timezone=True), server_default=sa.text('now()'), nullable=False),
-    sa.ForeignKeyConstraint(['user_id'], ['users.id'], ondelete='CASCADE'),
-    sa.PrimaryKeyConstraint('id')
-    )
-    # ### end Alembic commands ###
-
-
-def downgrade() -> None:
-    # ### commands auto generated by Alembic - please adjust! ###
-    op.drop_table('posts')
-    # ### end Alembic commands ###
diff --git a/alembic/versions/39256113e8e5_added_verification_code.py b/alembic/versions/39256113e8e5_added_verification_code.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 9eca0eb..0000000
--- a/alembic/versions/39256113e8e5_added_verification_code.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-"""added verification code
-
-Revision ID: 39256113e8e5
-Revises: 1c7984990e1d
-Create Date: 2022-07-14 08:03:57.507140
-
-"""
-from alembic import op
-import sqlalchemy as sa
-from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql
-
-# revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
-revision = '39256113e8e5'
-down_revision = '1c7984990e1d'
-branch_labels = None
-depends_on = None
-
-
-def upgrade() -> None:
-    # ### commands auto generated by Alembic - please adjust! ###
-    op.drop_table('posts')
-    op.add_column('users', sa.Column('verification_code', sa.String(), nullable=True))
-    op.create_unique_constraint(None, 'users', ['verification_code'])
-    # ### end Alembic commands ###
-
-
-def downgrade() -> None:
-    # ### commands auto generated by Alembic - please adjust! ###
-    op.drop_constraint(None, 'users', type_='unique')
-    op.drop_column('users', 'verification_code')
-    op.create_table('posts',
-    sa.Column('id', postgresql.UUID(), server_default=sa.text('uuid_generate_v4()'), autoincrement=False, nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('user_id', postgresql.UUID(), autoincrement=False, nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('title', sa.VARCHAR(), autoincrement=False, nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('content', sa.VARCHAR(), autoincrement=False, nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('category', sa.VARCHAR(), autoincrement=False, nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('image', sa.VARCHAR(), autoincrement=False, nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('created_at', postgresql.TIMESTAMP(timezone=True), server_default=sa.text('now()'), autoincrement=False, nullable=False),
-    sa.Column('updated_at', postgresql.TIMESTAMP(timezone=True), server_default=sa.text('now()'), autoincrement=False, nullable=False),
-    sa.ForeignKeyConstraint(['user_id'], ['users.id'], name='posts_user_id_fkey', ondelete='CASCADE'),
-    sa.PrimaryKeyConstraint('id', name='posts_pkey')
-    )
-    # ### end Alembic commands ###
diff --git a/alembic/versions/15770e820938_created_users_table.py b/alembic/versions/b1ec015461c4_added_verification_auth.py
similarity index 77%
rename from alembic/versions/15770e820938_created_users_table.py
rename to alembic/versions/b1ec015461c4_added_verification_auth.py
index 45ccf97..af93bf9 100644
--- a/alembic/versions/15770e820938_created_users_table.py
+++ b/alembic/versions/b1ec015461c4_added_verification_auth.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-"""created_users_table
+"""added-verification-auth
 
-Revision ID: 15770e820938
+Revision ID: b1ec015461c4
 Revises: 
-Create Date: 2022-07-06 15:11:26.439123
+Create Date: 2022-08-26 20:35:54.899416
 
 """
 from alembic import op
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql
 
 # revision identifiers, used by Alembic.
-revision = '15770e820938'
+revision = 'b1ec015461c4'
 down_revision = None
 branch_labels = None
 depends_on = None
@@ -19,17 +19,19 @@
 def upgrade() -> None:
     # ### commands auto generated by Alembic - please adjust! ###
     op.create_table('users',
-    sa.Column('id', postgresql.UUID(), server_default=sa.text('uuid_generate_v4()'), nullable=False),
+    sa.Column('id', postgresql.UUID(as_uuid=True), nullable=False),
     sa.Column('name', sa.String(), nullable=False),
     sa.Column('email', sa.String(), nullable=False),
     sa.Column('password', sa.String(), nullable=False),
     sa.Column('photo', sa.String(), nullable=True),
     sa.Column('verified', sa.Boolean(), server_default='False', nullable=False),
+    sa.Column('verification_code', sa.String(), nullable=True),
     sa.Column('role', sa.String(), server_default='user', nullable=False),
     sa.Column('created_at', sa.TIMESTAMP(timezone=True), server_default=sa.text('now()'), nullable=False),
     sa.Column('updated_at', sa.TIMESTAMP(timezone=True), server_default=sa.text('now()'), nullable=False),
     sa.PrimaryKeyConstraint('id'),
-    sa.UniqueConstraint('email')
+    sa.UniqueConstraint('email'),
+    sa.UniqueConstraint('verification_code')
     )
     # ### end Alembic commands ###
 
diff --git a/app/config.py b/app/config.py
index cd46047..86bdbe9 100644
--- a/app/config.py
+++ b/app/config.py
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
 
     CLIENT_ORIGIN: str
 
-    VERIFICATION_SECRET: str
-
     EMAIL_HOST: str
     EMAIL_PORT: int
     EMAIL_USERNAME: str
diff --git a/app/email.py b/app/email.py
index adbeb6c..0bdcf49 100644
--- a/app/email.py
+++ b/app/email.py
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ async def sendMail(self, subject, template):
             MAIL_FROM=settings.EMAIL_FROM,
             MAIL_PORT=settings.EMAIL_PORT,
             MAIL_SERVER=settings.EMAIL_HOST,
-            MAIL_TLS=True,
-            MAIL_SSL=False,
+            MAIL_STARTTLS=False,
+            MAIL_SSL_TLS=False,
             USE_CREDENTIALS=True,
             VALIDATE_CERTS=True
         )
diff --git a/app/models.py b/app/models.py
index 2f6b9fd..639dea1 100644
--- a/app/models.py
+++ b/app/models.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-from enum import unique
 import uuid
 from .database import Base
 from sqlalchemy import TIMESTAMP, Column, String, Boolean, text
diff --git a/app/routers/auth.py b/app/routers/auth.py
index cf0e725..5d3612a 100644
--- a/app/routers/auth.py
+++ b/app/routers/auth.py
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ def verify_me(token: str, db: Session = Depends(get_db)):
     db.commit()
     user = user_query.first()
     if not user:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=status.HTTP_403_FORBIDDEN, detail="Invalid code or user doesn't exist")
+    if user.verified:
         raise HTTPException(
             status_code=status.HTTP_403_FORBIDDEN, detail='Email can only be verified once')
     user_query.update(
diff --git a/readMe.md b/readMe.md
index b480aca..18208f0 100644
--- a/readMe.md
+++ b/readMe.md
@@ -1,5 +1,31 @@
-# RESTful API with Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy and Docker
+#  RESTful API with Python, SQLAlchemy, & FastAPI: Send HTML Emails
 
-### 1. RESTful API with Python & FastAPI: Access and Refresh Tokens
+In this article, you'll learn how to send HTML emails with Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Jinja2, and Docker-compose. Also, you'll learn how to dynamically generate HTML templates with the Jinja2 package.
 
-[RESTful API with Python & FastAPI: Access and Refresh Tokens](https://codevoweb.com/restful-api-with-python-fastapi-access-and-refresh-tokens)
+![RESTful API with Python, SQLAlchemy, & FastAPI: Send HTML Emails](https://codevoweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RESTful-API-with-Python-FastAPI-Send-HTML-Emails.webp)
+
+## Topics Covered
+
+- Send HTML Email with jinja2 and FastAPI Overview
+- Creating an SMTP Provider Account
+- Validating the Environment Variables with Pydantic
+- Create a Database Model with Sqlalchemy
+- Creating the HTML Email Templates with Jinja2
+- Set up SMTP Email Sender
+- How to Send the HTML Email
+- Update the SignUp Path Operation Function
+- Create a Controller to Verify the Code
+
+Read the entire article here: [https://codevoweb.com/restful-api-with-python-fastapi-send-html-emails](https://codevoweb.com/restful-api-with-python-fastapi-send-html-emails)
+
+### 1. RESTful API with Python,SQLAlchemy, & FastAPI: Access and Refresh Tokens
+
+[RESTful API with Python, SQLAlchemy, & FastAPI: Access and Refresh Tokens](https://codevoweb.com/restful-api-with-python-fastapi-access-and-refresh-tokens)
+
+### 2. RESTful API with Python, SQLAlchemy, & FastAPI: Send HTML Emails
+
+[RESTful API with Python, SQLAlchemy & FastAPI: Send HTML Emails](https://codevoweb.com/restful-api-with-python-fastapi-send-html-emails)
+
+### 3. CRUD RESTful API Server with Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL
+
+[CRUD RESTful API Server with Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, and PostgreSQL](https://codevoweb.com/crud-restful-api-server-with-python-fastapi-and-postgresql)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2c14003..095a868 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,46 +1,44 @@
-alembic==1.8.0
-anyio==3.6.1
-asgiref==3.5.2
-autopep8==1.6.0
-bcrypt==3.2.2
-certifi==2022.6.15
+aiosmtplib==1.1.7
+alembic==1.9.0
+anyio==3.6.2
+bcrypt==4.0.1
+blinker==1.5
+certifi==2022.12.7
 cffi==1.15.1
-charset-normalizer==2.1.0
 click==8.1.3
-colorama==0.4.5
+colorama==0.4.6
 cryptography==3.4.8
 dnspython==2.2.1
-email-validator==1.2.1
-fastapi==0.78.0
+email-validator==1.3.0
+fastapi==0.87.0
 fastapi-jwt-auth==0.5.0
-greenlet==1.1.2
-h11==0.13.0
-httptools==0.4.0
-idna==3.3
+fastapi-mail==1.2.2
+greenlet==2.0.1
+h11==0.14.0
+httpcore==0.16.3
+httptools==0.5.0
+httpx==0.23.1
+idna==3.4
 itsdangerous==2.1.2
 Jinja2==3.1.2
-Mako==1.2.1
+Mako==1.2.4
 MarkupSafe==2.1.1
-orjson==3.7.6
+orjson==3.8.3
 passlib==1.7.4
-psycopg2==2.9.3
-pycodestyle==2.8.0
+psycopg2==2.9.5
 pycparser==2.21
-pydantic==1.9.1
+pydantic==1.10.2
 PyJWT==1.7.1
-python-dotenv==0.20.0
+python-dotenv==0.21.0
 python-multipart==0.0.5
 PyYAML==6.0
-requests==2.28.1
+rfc3986==1.5.0
 six==1.16.0
-sniffio==1.2.0
-SQLAlchemy==1.4.39
-starlette==0.19.1
-toml==0.10.2
-typing_extensions==4.3.0
-tzdata==2022.1
-ujson==5.4.0
-urllib3==1.26.9
-uvicorn==0.17.6
-watchgod==0.8.2
-websockets==10.3
+sniffio==1.3.0
+SQLAlchemy==1.4.45
+starlette==0.21.0
+typing_extensions==4.4.0
+ujson==5.6.0
+uvicorn==0.20.0
+watchfiles==0.18.1
+websockets==10.4

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