Joomla 1.5 stop user registration emails (virtuemart installed!)

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I have a legacy website that started having tons of spam user registrations from some jerkoff's script. Googling "disable user registration email joomla 1.5" brought up an excellent discussion: viewtopic.php?t=280282

Unfortunately that discussion was locked with a lot of people saying "THIS ISN'T WORKING FOR ME" and no answers given.

Lots of GREP time later I figured out what these people were likely missing. If they had installed Virtuemart the registration email was being sent by a different file:

/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_shopper.php

If you search for PHPSHOP_USER_SEND_REGISTRATION_DETAILS you'll see a whole chunk of code. Comment the code out like I did to stop the user registration emails.

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$message = sprintf ($VM_LANG->_('PHPSHOP_USER_SEND_REGISTRATION_DETAILS',false), $name, $mosConfig_sitename, $mosConfig_live_site, $username, $pwd);
                }

                $message = vmHtmlEntityDecode($message, ENT_QUOTES);
                // Send email to user
                if ($mosConfig_mailfrom != "" && $mosConfig_fromname != "") {
                        $adminName2 = $mosConfig_fromname;
                        $adminEmail2 = $mosConfig_mailfrom;
                } else {
                        $query = "SELECT name, email"
                        . "\n FROM #__users"
                        . "\n WHERE LOWER( usertype ) = 'superadministrator'"
                        . "\n OR LOWER( usertype ) = 'super administrator'"
                        ;
                        $database->setQuery( $query );
                        $rows = $database->loadObjectList();
                        $row2                   = $rows[0];
                        $adminName2     = $row2->name;
                        $adminEmail2    = $row2->email;
                }
                if( VM_REGISTRATION_TYPE != 'NO_REGISTRATION' || (VM_REGISTRATION_TYPE == 'OPTIONAL_REGISTRATION' && !empty($d['register_account']))) {
//                      vmMail($adminEmail2, $adminName2, $email, $subject, $message);
                }

                // Send notification to all administrators
                $subject2 = sprintf ($VM_LANG->_('SEND_SUB',false), $name, $mosConfig_sitename);
                $message2 = sprintf ($VM_LANG->_('ASEND_MSG',false), $adminName2, $mosConfig_sitename, $name, $email, $username);
                $subject2 = vmHtmlEntityDecode($subject2, ENT_QUOTES);
                $message2 = vmHtmlEntityDecode($message2, ENT_QUOTES);

                // get superadministrators id
                $admins = $acl->get_group_objects( 25, 'ARO' );
                if( empty( $admins['users'] )) {
                        return;
                }
                foreach ( $admins['users'] AS $id ) {
                        $query = "SELECT email, sendEmail"
                        . "\n FROM #__users"
                        ."\n WHERE id = $id"
                        ;
                        $database->setQuery( $query );
                        $rows = $database->loadObjectList();

                        $row = $rows[0];

                        if ($row->sendEmail) {
//                              vmMail($adminEmail2, $adminName2, $row->email, $subject2, $message2);

As you'll see all I did was comment out the vmMail lines which stop the messages from being sent.

Thanks to the Joomla team for awesome work and supporting us users as much as you do! :-)