Why send activation email on user update?

If sending activation emails is enabled (SEND_ACTIVATION_EMAIL == True), updating a user currently sends an activation email!

https://github.com/sunscrapers/djoser/blob/master/djoser/views.py#L148:

class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    ...
    def perform_update(self, serializer):
        super().perform_update(serializer)
        user = serializer.instance
        # should we send activation email after update?
        if settings.SEND_ACTIVATION_EMAIL:
            context = {"user": user}
            to = [get_user_email(user)]
            settings.EMAIL.activation(self.request, context).send(to)

What’s the purpose of sending an activation email with an activation link in this scenario (updating a user)? The account is already activated, and will remain activated after the update. A confirmation email would be understandable, but an activation email is puzzling.

[akhayyat]

Right. That makes sense when the email is changed. But a user may be updated without changing their email. In fact, in my case, email is the username. So, changing it requires using the “set username” endpoint. The email field is a read-only field in my user serializer.

But to accommodate the general case, wouldn’t it make sense to send an activation email only if the email field is changed?

[Saksow]

Any plans to release this?