No Welcome eMail on User Creation via API in N8N

[Nuenni (André)]

H folks,

I have 2 Discourse forums running with automations.

Community 1

Ony my first community it runs without any automation problems in make.com.

This automation sends the “Activate your account” welcome email.

Community 2

I wanted to set up an N8N Workflow for this Community (instead of make), and the user is fully created in discourse.

Here is a picture of the admin panel:

But the system sends no email.

Here is my JSON:

{
  "email": "{{ $json.body.member.current.email }}",
  "name": "{{ $json.body.member.current.name }}",
  "username": "ToolGuide{{ Math.floor(10000 + Math.random() * 90000) }}",
  "password": "{{ $json.body.member.current.uuid }}",
  "active": "true",
  "approved": "true"
}

In the output, it confirms the crearion:

[
{
"success": 
true,
"active": 
true,
"message": 
"Dein Konto ist nun freigeschaltet und einsatzbereit.",
"user_id": 
13
}
]

The Problem with Community 2

The new User doesn’t get any email to activate his new account in discourse ;-(

I tried the manual registration with link and then i get the email, that worked fine.

On this Community 2 I have invite only activated, the api user is system with global rights.

Any ideas or suggetions?

Thx for help and greetings from Germany!

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

I would guess that since you’re passing "active": "true" the user is already being activated?

[Nuenni (André)]

Yes this is my setup what I copied from make there are the same approved and active with true variables.

I testet N8N with false. The I need to approve manually and the email for welcome and activate isn’t send too.

But today I got the reminder on my test email
To activate only the initial welcome to activate email is missing

[RGJ (Richard - Communiteq)]

@Nuenni

only the initial welcome to activate email is missing

Can you see it in Admin - Emails - Sent?

[Nuenni (André)]

No there I can’t see it either it’s not triggered but why

[merefield (Robert)]

I don’t believe active users are ever sent the email, so set active to false.

[Nuenni (André)]

Hey Robert,

youre right. I testet it with “false” on active and i get the email when the N8N Workflow runs. So i controlled the Make.workflow have a look:

ACTIVE USERS. TRUE

LOG CONTROL

When i look into the log it gives me this back:

Why it sends me this back i dont know, as i sad in make. with “true” it worked fine

So thanks for solving it !