How to temporarily stop all CB Subs emails?

Hi,

We are in the process of migrating a Joomla 1.5 site with CB and SB Subs to Joomla 3.3.1.

Until the new site is live we do not want any emails to be sent to users especially about their CB Subs subscription expiring. I have done the following things, but the expiry email is still being sent out:

1. Joomla Global Config > Server >
   - Send Mail = No
   - Mailer = SMTP
   - Password = blank
2. CB Subs > Settings >
   - Global > Mass expiry settings > Cron (make sure no cron job setup)
   - Global > Mass expiry settings > Maximum /cron run: 1
   - Global > Automated payments > Maximum /cron run: 1
   - Mailer > Enabled = No
   - no cron job setup for the account
3. CB
   - /administrator/com_comprofiler/comprofiler.class.php - comment out line 172 and add new line after it with: $mailSent = true; // Line49 hack to stop email
   - unpublish CBSubs Mailer plugin and CBSubs email plugin

I don't want to have to go into every one of our CB Subs plans and remove the email messages so they are blank. Is there somewhere else that I can 'hack' temporarily to make sure that no email is sent from CB Subs?

Thank you.

Joomla has added a parameter that shuts off emails, which CB will respect in CB 2.0. For CB 1.x you'll need to setup the Joomla mailer parameters to be invalid until you're ready for CB to send emails. Try settings your mailer to SMTP and supplying all invalid information (invalid username, password, host, port, form name, from address, etc..).

Hi Kyle,

CB is fine, it doesn't seem to be sending out emails, it is CB Subs that still is sending out the expiry emails. As noted above I have already changed the Joomla Global Configuration to SMTP and put in a blank password and username. But we are still getting out the expiry email when you go into CB Subs > Settings. I also have the expiry CB Subs setting set to Cron only, so I don't know why going into CB Subs > Settings is triggering the email. It doesn't seem to be using the Joomla Global email setting since the emails are coming out.

Thank you.

Are you sure they're CBSubs emails that are sending? I just don't see how that's possible. If CBSubs is set to CRON only and your Joomla global mailer settings are invalid then it's impossible for CBSubs to send them. The only reason I can see this happening is the emails have already been sent to your mail server and they're queued. As a last resort you can edit comprofilerMail within the below file and add return true; to the top of it to stop the function from doing anything.

administrator/components/com_comprofiler/comprofiler.class.php