[Django]-Django allauth setting EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_AUTHENTICATED_REDIRECT_URL doesn't work

After a lot of fiddling about, I think the allauth settings don’t work how I expected from their names and maybe don’t work as intended. ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_AUTHENTICATED_REDIRECT_URL does not mean “redirect after the user logged in”. The code tests on user.is_authenticated (site-packages/allauth/account/adapter.py) which in this context seems to mean “was the confirmation link valid?”.

ACCOUNT_LOGIN_ON_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION doesn’t seem to work at all with token authentication, and anyway is known not to work if the session has changed. So I think it must be set to False.

ACCOUNT_LOGIN_ON_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION = False seems to be honoured sometimes but not always and I haven’t found out why…

Looking at how the email_confirm.html template is built, I think that success will always redirect you to ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_AUTHENTICATED_REDIRECT_URL and failure will keep you on the page with a non-working link to request a new confirmation email.

I can’t find when ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_ANONYMOUS_REDIRECT_URL would be used but have set it to the home page.

I may have misunderstood this, but I have finally got a sort-of-working setup. It’s very cludgy, there must be a better way to do this but right now I’ll take anything that lets me move on. I have ended up using several allauth templates for account management because I can’t get this working with rest-auth.

There is still an issue with failed links: mostly I see the template page with its useful message, but sometimes it just shows the home page. But at least that is not the main flow and not a disaster for the user.

settings.py: note the template DIRS entry for allauth, otherwise my custom template is not used

TEMPLATES = [
    {
...
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),
        os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets'),
        os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates', 'allauth')],
...
]

ACCOUNT_LOGIN_ON_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION = False
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_ANONYMOUS_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
ACCOUNT_EMAIL_CONFIRMATION_AUTHENTICATED_REDIRECT_URL = '/verified'

‘verified’ is a route in my front end that displays a confirmation message and a link to login.

urls.py

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = [
...
    re_path(r'^rest-auth/registration/account-confirm-email/(?P<key>[-:\w]+)/$', confirm_email,
 name='account_confirm_email'),
]

templates/account/email_confirm.html, modified to give a working link on failure

{% extends "account/base.html" %}

{% load i18n %}
{% load account %}

{% block head_title %}{% trans "Confirm E-mail Address" %}{% endblock %}


{% block content %}
<h1>{% trans "Confirm E-mail Address" %}</h1>

{% if confirmation %}

{% user_display confirmation.email_address.user as user_display %}

<p>{% blocktrans with confirmation.email_address.email as email %}Please confirm that <a href="mailto:{{ email }}">{{ email }}</a> is an e-mail address for user {{ user_display }}.{% endblocktrans %}</p>

<form method="post" action="{% url 'account_confirm_email' confirmation.key %}">
{% csrf_token %}
    <button type="submit">{% trans 'Confirm' %}</button>
</form>

{% else %}

{% url 'account_email' as email_url %}

<p>{% blocktrans %}The email confirmation link expired or is invalid. Please <a href="/login/">login</a> and request a new confirmation email from your user account.{% endblocktrans %}</p>

{% endif %}

{% endblock %}