confirmation email with a custom user model not working

Question

im having a problem in creating a confirmation email that leads to a view and set up the account.is_active to True things that keep in mind ,i have a custom user model that abstracts from the User model the token generator works fine ,i get the email i click the link ,it says that the account is activated but nothing actually is happening i think the problem is in the activate view

my models.py

class Account(AbstractBaseUser):
email = models.EmailField(verbose_name="email",max_length=60, unique=True)
username = models.CharField(max_length=60,unique=True)
phone = models.CharField(max_length=60,unique=True)

date_joined = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name="date joined",auto_now_add=True)
last_login = models.DateTimeField(verbose_name="last login",auto_now=True)
is_admin = models.BooleanField(default=False)
is_active = models.BooleanField(default=False)
is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=False)
is_superuser = models.BooleanField(default=False)

USERNAME_FIELD = 'username'
REQUIRED_FIELDS = ['email','phone']


objects = MyAccountManager()

def __str__(self):
    return self.username
    
def has_perm(self, perm, obj=None):
    return self.is_admin
def has_module_perms(self, app_label):
    return True

tokens.py

from django.contrib.auth.tokens import PasswordResetTokenGenerator
from django.utils import six

class TokenGenerator(PasswordResetTokenGenerator):
    def _make_hash_value(self, account, timestamp):
        return (
            six.text_type(account.pk) + six.text_type(timestamp) +
            six.text_type(account.is_active)
        )
account_activation_token = TokenGenerator()

view.py

    #active view==========================================
def activate(request, uidb64, token):
    try:
        uid = force_text(urlsafe_base64_decode(uidb64))
        account = Account.objects.get(pk=uid)
    except(TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError, Account.DoesNotExist):
        account = None
    if account is not None and account_activation_token.check_token(account, token):
        account.is_active = True
        account.save()
        login(request, account, backend="users.backends.AccountAuthBackend")
        # return redirect('home')
        return HttpResponse('Thank you for your email confirmation. Now you can login your account.')
    else:
        return HttpResponse('Activation link is invalid!')

i used to work with the same way with the default django User but now when i changed to my custom user model and working with rest framework api this happened

the link takes me to the view it says email activated but in the admin panel the user account still set to is_active = False it should be True if the link was correct — YahyaST18, Jul 23 '20 at 12:51
The code looks correct to me. Can you please check if you tested correct user? — ruddra, Jul 23 '20 at 12:55
try to debug this code with pdb/print and see if it is getting correct `account`. — ruddra, Jul 23 '20 at 13:21
yes i do get the correct link on the provided email on registration the problem is that the activate function is not changing the is_active status on the user model everything stays the same even after the activation function completed successfully — YahyaST18, Jul 23 '20 at 13:31

confirmation email with a custom user model not working

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