Question

I've obviously set a variable wrongly - when a user registers, the new user doesn't get the registration email, instead webmaster gets the registration email (from himself) to say the user has registered - what do I do to get the email to the new user?

Environment

-- ChrisHogan - 18 Sep 2003

Answer

It should work out of the box. Does /your/twiki/templates/registernotify.tmpl template look like such:

From: %WIKIWEBMASTER%
To: %EMAILADDRESS%
Cc: %WIKIWEBMASTER%
Subject: %WIKITOOLNAME% - Registration for %WIKINAME%
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This is an automated email notification of user registration
in %WIKITOOLNAME%.

Sorry for the huge delay, mopping up a lot of unanswered postings (not just TWiki) - turned out to be a problem with the ISP, not TWiki.

-- ChrisHogan - 25 Nov 2003

It is my opinion that it would be better to send a default password to the users email address. This would catch the fault at the earliest moment, rather than at an indefinite time period afterwards when the user is no longer in the mode of thinking about it. We had a patch to do this a couple of years ago.

-- MartinCleaver - 27 Nov 2003