https://fusionauth.io/community/forum/topic/1406/link-in-email-verification-not-working-first-time

Glad you were able to solve your issue.

As far as the automatically verify the email part. What settings do you have for Applications -> Your Application -> Registration -> Verification strategy? There is a setting Clickable link. Is that what you are after?

Another thought would simply turning off Verify registrations in the Applications -> Your Application -> Registation tab work for you or do you still want the user to actually have to click on a link? (It would make sense to ensure the user owns the email address.)

You could also do something like provide a custom template and direct them to your application and then automatically verify them using the APIs. Check out this blog post.

Good luck.

Thanks to your email I just found the issue in another thread: https://fusionauth.io/community/forum/topic/1406/link-in-email-verification-not-working-first-time

The key was to read the documentation shared by Joshua (https://fusionauth.io/docs/v1/tech/tutorials/gating/gate-accounts-until-user-email-verified/#troubleshooting-email-and-registration-verification).

The issue was that I had selected the wrong email template. I had selected Email Verification when the correct one was Registration Verification.

And hijacking my question: is there a way to automatically verify the email when the user clicks on the link in the email rather than ask for confirmation? I like the idea of a 2nd confirmation as it should stop some email scanners that click on all links in an email, but it's also good to have the least amount of friction.