Joomla 1.7 duplicate email suppression

nant wrote: As of Joomla 1.7 there is a bug/missing-feature (?) in Joomla API that automatically triggers a Joomla welcoming email when CB User Management is used to create a new user.

A relatively painless work-around is to find the:

administrator -> language -> en-GB -> en-GB.plg_user_joomla.ini file (and/or all relevant language specific instances)

and empty the relevant language strings:

PLG_USER_JOOMLA_NEW_USER_EMAIL_BODY=""
PLG_USER_JOOMLA_NEW_USER_EMAIL_SUBJECT=""


This will suppress Joomla email sending.

Only minor cosmetic drawback is that you will see a warning in backend:

Empty message body

when creating user.

FYI - with Joomla 2.5.3 you can now use the new language overrides feature instead of modifying the language files.

only because I did not know what "new language overrides feature" was... here it is (for others):

www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla-25/language/add-new-language-override