[Cognito] Auto-confirm user AND send verification code

Which Category is your question related to? User attribute verification

What AWS Services are you utilizing? Cognito

Provide additional details I’ve got a pre-sign up lambda that auto-confirms a user but that does not auto-verify the user’s email. Auto-confirming results in no verification email being sent to the user. From what I can tell, in order for a verification email to be sent in this scenario, the Auth.verifyCurrentUserAttribute method must be used. I’m wondering if there is a way to have a sign up verification email sent regardless of whether a user has been auto-confirmed. My primary motivation behind this is custom messaging: upon signing up (CustomMessage_SignUp), a user should receive a welcome email with a verification code in it, but upon requesting a verification code (CustomMessage_VerifyUserAttribute), a user should receive a verification request email.

[haverchuck]

@Palisand I’m closing this issue due to inactivity. I believe that this is what you would want. You could probably have a single trigger both send the email and mark a user as confirmed.

[geddawi]

There is a huge setback with this scenario:

1. Step 1: User needs to signup and get a confirmed account right away (not a confirmed email; this will be prompted by the application to unlock extra features and extend usability etc) At this point user can sign in but is a limited user.
2. Step 2: User is sent a standard and very common welcome email + verification link (created with the verification code and embedded into an API Gateway URL as a parameter that is then processed to verify the email since Cognito still does not support verification links)
3. Step 3: User clicks on the link and now has both a verified account and a verified email.

This is not possible since we can’t get the signup custom message trigger to fire after the user is auto-confirmed.