No email sent when Require a verification email, but let users set their password directly on the registration form is set.

Problem/Motivation

When setting: "Require a verification email, but let users set their password directly on the registration form." in the account settings config, no email is sent to the user after they sign up via user/register. User accounts are created with status "Blocked".

When selecting "Do not require a verification email, and let users set their password on the registration form." the "Account activation" email is sent.

There are no errors in the log, mail log shows no attempt to send emails.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install the module
2. Set the "Require a verification email, but let users set their password directly on the registration form." config option
3. (Optional, in my case: Run the easy_email_express recipe, setup SMTP transport.)
4. Use the user/register form.

Proposed resolution

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes