Question

Whenever someone creates an account on my twiki, I recieve their registration e-mail as well. Anyone know how to disable this?

Environment

-- BrianMahoney - 01 Aug 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

The feature to inform the %WIKIWEBMASTER% about registrations is intentional: For public TWikis, it allows the admin to immediate take action if there are spammer registrations.

To disable it, you'd best hack the code at lib/TWiki/UI/Register.pm: There's a subroutine _emailRegistrationConfirmations where the mails are sent. Simply return before the mail to the administrator is sent.

If you don't want to touch the code, have a look at templates/registernotifyadmin.tmpl, which is the template for the mail to the webmaster. Change the To: address to something different, but keep in mind that if the mail address is invalid, this will fill your error log.

-- HaraldJoerg - 01 Aug 2007

Thanks for your help Harald - I'm getting both the registered user information & their user authentication email. I think what you mentioned was the registered user info, I am completely fine with accepting that. However, I stille should not be recieving other people's authentication e-mails - I'm guessing something is configured improperly?

-- BrianMahoney - 01 Aug 2007

Ok, let's try another one - which, if I understand you correctly, would be even easier and cleaner to solve. Are you referring to the mails which users receive to confirm their registration by entering a numeric code? In that case, simply edit templates/registerconfirm.tmpl and delete the line beginning with BCC:.

-- HaraldJoerg - 02 Aug 2007

Thank you so much Harald you are the best!

-- BrianMahoney - 03 Aug 2007

-- BrianMahoney - 03 Aug 2007