How to disable registration email

[leetorrens]

Searched forums for 'disable registration email' and 'turn off registration email' without success.

I want to stop Joomla 1.5 from sending an email to users when they register. I presume there's a line in a file somewhere that I can comment out to achieve this.

Thanks in advance.

[RiCtee]

All you need to do is go into the backend and then Global Configuration -> System -> choose "No" to New User Account Activation.

[leetorrens]

Thanks for responding, but that's not what I'm after.

Even with Account Activation turned off, users are still sent an email when they register. It's this email, not the activation email, that I want to turn off.

[joarvat]

I am also wanting to know this. Someone may wonder why I would want to disable this. But the fact is that email is not a very secure way of sending out login information. When I set someone up as a super admin for example, I want to avoid that email going out, because if someone snaps up the superadmin username/password, they can do a lot of damage. Call me paranoid, but I think one should take precautions.

I suppose one way of doing this is to
1. Set the person up, but use an email address on the same domain. Then I guess it's not sent out on the internet.
2. Then you edit the user and change the email address to the correct one. In this instance, again I don't think an email is sent out.

Am I correct?

[leetorrens]

Hey joarvat,

I do a similar thing for setting up new admins but with the password field as well. I setup the new account with my own email address and a fake password and click Apply instead of Save. Once the page has reloaded I change the email address and password to the real values and save. This way the email is sent to me and doesn't contain the correct password.

I'm still interested to know if there is a way to disable the email for users who self-register from the front end.

Lee

[calsnoboarder]

Is there anywhere that this can be turned off? Seems that no one has really answered this question.

Ideally, if you set NO EMAIL TO NEW USERS, then no email gets sent, but this does not prevent a user you manually enter through the back end from receiving an email letting them know they have been registered and this is their username and password.

[chrisjenx2001]

To me its more the annoyance of having to delete emails daily.
Even if you could disable email admin on new user would be handy?

[kaharris]

I am also looking for an answer. I don't want to make user register for my site, but I have a section that they can indicate to get email updates when I add new content. I want to be able to send out mass emails from joomla. When I manually register users for the mass email, I don't want to send out and email telling them that they are registering for the site.

[D-Fi]

Has anyone figured this out? I'm in the exact same boat... I have a user that simply wants to manually add users to the back end for mass mail purposes and I haven't been able to find the line(s) of code to comment out that would control this.

[D-Fi]

I found the answer to this if anyone is still looking.

edit YourSite/administrator/components/com_users/controller.php

***NOTE*** make sure you're in ADMINISTRATOR/components directory and not the general components directory off of the root... or you will drive yourself crazy looking for something that doesn't exist like I did

around line 189 look for "JUtility::sendMail( $adminEmail, $adminName, $user->get('email'), $subject, $message );"
and comment out or delete that 1 line.

So far so good... I have registered a handful of test users and received no registration confirmation email & mass mailing still works.

[matt_nz]

I found if you want to disable the annoying email when a front end user joins your site, I had to alter:
components\com_user\controller.php
Line 522
comment out:
//JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $row->email, $subject2, $message2);

[bjarkekr]

yeah well that is a solution, but its not so smart to alter joomla core code.. Makes it a lot harder to update to new versions of joomla.

But it seems there is no other solution to this, right?

[MGadAllah]

But in case I am adding a new user from acp (Joomla back end) how can I disable the email sent to the user that has been added?
This is the only thing I want to do as I want new users that has been registered at the front end to get the email.
Thanks

[moooh]

But in case I am adding a new user from acp (Joomla back end) how can I disable the email sent to the user that has been added?

Then you would do what D-Fi said in his post.


As a short answer to the others wondering, no, there is no good non core breaking solution to stop the emails from being sent.
An ugly way you could acchieve it would be to keep it on but remove the mail server information from global configuration. This way joomla will try send the mail but fail and display a notice. This would only work if you don't plan on sending any mails at all from joomla and is not a recommended 'solution'. Commenting out the lines is the best you can do at the moment.

[forestofshadows]

Hello, you need to modify the file /components/com_user/controller.php wich is not in the administrator folder... delete these code... and thats it..

// Send email to user
if ( ! $mailfrom || ! $fromname ) {
$fromname = $rows[0]->name;
$mailfrom = $rows[0]->email;
}

JUtility::sendMail($mailfrom, $fromname, $email, $subject, $message);

The administrator continue receiving mails but the registered user wont.
If you want neither the admin receive mail delete the code after the // Send notification to all administrators

It works fine for me.

[ServiceFly]

Does anyone know if AEC and other components use the JUtility line to send out their emails? My problem is when a new user joins, they are sent four emails and I am sent four emails. I just want one email sent from AEC for activation, then confirmation (2 emails total to user) and just one email sent to me (admin) to notify of new user.

[luis23045]

great post guys, it worked like a charm for me

[newusr2009]

I successfully imported a bunch of users without sending notification emails with Arra User Import/Export http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions ... port/12607

[candcconsulting]

I have joomla 1.6 and there's not even 189 lines in administrator/components/com_users/controller.php, nor is there any code resembling anything anyone in this forum has posted. Why do they make this so user-unfriendly?

[tonytranupc]

I have the same issue but still can't fix it. I do many searches but there is no good option to follow up.