I changed the setting on the complementary registration step to save.
I made the same edits to the template file with the same result.
The activation e-mail sends once the new user has finished the first step.
I edited the file to read as follows after making the user_from field mandatory in the basic step. I think it is called location in the registration page.
Hello {X_UNAME},
A new user {USERNAME} ({USEREMAIL}) has just registered an account at {SITENAME}.
Clicking on the link below will activate the account of this user:
The new user {USERNAME} entered the following information:
Occupation: {USER_OCC}
User is from: {USER_FROM}
Extra Info: {BIO}
{USERACTLINK}
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{SITENAME} ({SITEURL})
webmaster
{ADMINMAIL}