[aws-cognito] Cognito won't send verification email to verify new user email

Cognito won’t send verification email to verify new user email.

Reproduction Steps

const authPool = new UserPool(this, 'myAuth', {
      userPoolName: 'my-auth',
      selfSignUpEnabled: true,
      signInAliases: {
        email: true
      },
      autoVerify: {
        email: false
      },
      standardAttributes: {
        email: {
          required: true,
          mutable: false
        }
      },
      passwordPolicy: {
        minLength: 12,
        requireSymbols: false
      },
      accountRecovery: AccountRecovery.EMAIL_ONLY
    })

What did you expect to happen?

Each time user signs up then they should receive verification email

What actually happened?

By going to aws console I found out the error see the screenshot below If I manually change it to verify attribute email on aws console then it works as expected.

There is no options that says which attributes do you want to verify on aws-congnito cdk api.

Environment

• CLI Version : 1.65.0
• Framework Version:
• Node.js Version: 12.18.4
• OS : Ubuntu 20.04
• Language (Version): Typescript

Other

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This is 🐛 Bug Report

[nija-at]

@jukkasi - this is language taken from Cognito documentation -

“Amazon Cognito can automatically verify email addresses or mobile phone numbers by sending a verification code—or, for email, a verification link.”

The action ‘auto’ refers that Cognito should automatically verify the attribute.

[jukkasi]

If what you say is correct then “autoVerify” is very confusing term because I understand it so that these attributes are automatically set to verified state when the user is created.

So “autoverify: email: false” means to me that user manually needs to confirm this attribute, meaning that email is send by Cognito which then requires user interaction.

EDIT: Setting “autoverify: email: true” fixes the problem, like described in documentation