# Change email after registering and pending activation?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-email-after-registering-and-pending-activation/68243>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [2017 年 8 月 17 日午後 3:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-email-after-registering-and-pending-activation/68243 "2017-08-17T15:02:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [2017 年 8 月 18 日午前 11:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-email-after-registering-and-pending-activation/68243/11 "2017-08-18T11:00:26Z")

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I think I’ve seen this before on my instance - isn’t really an issue for us though as we don’t care what email address people use. Just repro-d it successfully on tests-passed.

Just in case there’s any confusion about active vs. approved. As I understand it:

- “active” is related to verifying your own email address
- “approved” is when a staff member approves a user (with `must approve users` site setting)

I think @fermelone is talking about this scenario, which I can reproduce:

- User signs up, but does not “activate”
- Staff member sees new user, and clicks “approve” after looking at their (un-activated) email address
- User uses “update activation email” to change email address
- User can now activate an account

So maybe users shouldn’t be added to the approval queue until they are ‘activated’?

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