When an existing staged user Joins my site, filled in user custom fields data isn't saved

[nathank (Nathan Kershaw)]

It might well be that it is an unexpected interaction with direct incoming email. I don’t recall ever noticing it before implementing direct incoming email, that is for sure.

@jancernik

If so, do you have an idea of what might be different in my setup to produce a different result?

If you still can’t repro it, please set this up and try again:

Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites

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