When using Ez user subscribe a newsletter, no confirmation email is send to the user after newsletter/subscribe action.
in the code is comment telling that no such action shall be taken, but users have to be activated to get newsletters. Therefore it shall be:
sendConfirmationEmail
or
set diferent STATUS

STATUS_PENDING shall be changed into STATUS_CONFIRMED in line 166 in cjw_newsletter/modules/newsletter/subscribe.php file

(...)
if( $postedEmailIsFromLoggedInUser === true )
{
// all is ok -> send confirmation email
if ( count( $warningArr ) == 0 )

{ // subscribe to all selected lists $subscriptionResultArray = CjwNewsletterSubscription::createSubscriptionByArray( $subscriptionDataArr, [line 166------------------>] CjwNewsletterUser::STATUS_PENDING, true, $context ); $newNewsletterUser = CjwNewsletterUser::fetchByEmail( $subscriptionDataArr['email'] ); $tpl->setVariable( 'user_email_already_exists', false ); $tpl->setVariable( 'mail_send_result', false ); $tpl->setVariable( 'newsletter_user', $newNewsletterUser ); $tpl->setVariable( 'subscription_result_array', $subscriptionResultArray ); $tpl->setVariable( 'back_url_input', $backUrl ); $templateFile = 'design:newsletter/subscribe_success_ez_user.tpl'; }

}
(...)

Steps to reproduce

1. Register Ez user
2. confirm registration
3. open newsletter/subscribe
4. chose mailing lists
5. save the form
6 check on the subscribers list status of a user