Verify email using REST API to create user?

[Moritz Schmitz von Huelst]

When setting 'Verify email' to 'true' in the realm settings and registering a user through Keycloak an email is sent to the user. The template used is 'email-verification.ftl'.

When having the same realm setting but creating a user through the REST API 'POST /{realm}/users' the email is not sent. There is a REST API method 'PUT /{realm}/users/{id}/send-verify-email' available, but it uses a different email template 'executeActions.ftl'.

My expectation is Keycloak to send out an email 'normally' when the realm setting requires to verify your email. No matter whether you use the REST API or the UI.

Is there any fix/workaround to this?

[Garth]

Unfortunately, that's how it is in the code. We encountered the same problem, and had to create a custom REST endpoint to use the `email-verification.ftl` template.

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021, at 6:54 PM, Moritz Schmitz von Huelst wrote:
> When setting 'Verify email' to 'true' in the realm settings and
> registering a user through Keycloak an email is sent to the user. The
> template used is 'email-verification.ftl'.
>
> When having the same realm setting but creating a user through the REST

> API 'POST /{realm}/users' the email is *not* sent. There is a REST API

> method 'PUT /{realm}/users/{id}/send-verify-email' available, but it
> uses a different email template 'executeActions.ftl'.
>
> My expectation is Keycloak to send out an email 'normally' when the
> realm setting requires to verify your email. No matter whether you use
> the REST API or the UI.
>
> Is there any fix/workaround to this?
>
>

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[Moritz Schmitz von Huelst]

Thanks for the response. This looks like a bug, or at least undocumented/unexpected behavior. I opened a ticket at Keycloak: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/KEYCLOAK-17925