Disable front-end registrators from recving a confirmation email

Question

I'm trying to disable users that register from the front-end from receiving confirmation / welcome emails.

Please note:

1. In com_users options you can only disable the password and username from being sent but the email itself still generating.
2. When going to plugins manager -> user -> Notification Mail to User -> No | it will only disable mailing to users who have been registered manually by the website admin.

I have seen a thread where they suggest a hack to components -> com_users -> contoller.php referance: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=280282

The problem is that they are suggesting this for an older version of Joomla! and the controller.php does not have those lines anymore (Not that i can see)

If the only way to achieve this is by hacking the core, so be it, although, i would prefer a 'clean' solution.

Answer 1

You can disable it commenting line 510, components/com_users/models/registration.php.

    // Send the registration email.
    // $return = JFactory::getMailer()->sendMail($data['mailfrom'], $data['fromname'], $data['email'], $emailSubject, $emailBody);

NOTE: This is a core hack. It has to be re-implemented in every Joomla update.