Disable Welcome Email Not Working

[independenteasel]

I tried the fix here that was intended to disable the welcome email, but it still sends: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...+welcome+email

I use ZC 1.5.1. Any other ideas as to what I can do? I am trying to cut down on the emails being sent from our server as we do a one-week only sale that gets 5,000+ orders. Last year we sent too much email out (welcome and order confirmation) that our server was blacklisted for possible spammers.


The actual email is sent from the file:
/includes/modules/create_account.php

to the customer:
PHP Code:
// send welcome email
zen_mail($name, $email_address, EMAIL_SUBJECT, $email_text, STORE_NAME, EMAIL_FROM, $html_msg, 'welcome');


I tried commenting it out and even deleting it and it still sends. Thank you for ANY help you can offer.

[DrByte]

Which payment modules do you use? ... cuz if you're using PayPal Express Checkout it will send welcome emails too whenever it creates a customer record as part of a customer paying with EC.

[independenteasel]

I do have PP EC enabled. It will send to everyone - regardless of whether or not they create an account at first visit or checkout? I am getting the email with just creating an account. Can it be disabled?

[DrByte]

You can disable it by commenting-out the zen_mail call in that section of the code, in the paypalwpp.php payment module file.

[independenteasel]

You can disable it by commenting-out the zen_mail call in that section of the code, in the paypalwpp.php payment module file.

I see several places where the zen_mail function is listed, but I cannot determine which one sends the welcome email. Can you point me in the right direction?

[DrByte]

So I went looking in the code, and I see that there's an even easier way to deal with it, from v151 onward:

In your language files (create_account.php), simply change the define for EMAIL_SUBJECT from whatever it currently is (probably "welcome to".STORE_NAME or such), to 'n/a', like this:

define('EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'n/a');

And for admin-copies of those emails, in email_extras, do similarly:

define('SEND_EXTRA_CREATE_ACCOUNT_EMAILS_TO_SUBJECT', 'n/a');

This way you don't need to alter the code in the "module" files.

[independenteasel]

So I went looking in the code, and I see that there's an even easier way to deal with it, from v151 onward:

In your language files (create_account.php), simply change the define for EMAIL_SUBJECT from whatever it currently is (probably "welcome to".STORE_NAME or such), to 'n/a', like this:

define('EMAIL_SUBJECT', 'n/a');

And for admin-copies of those emails, in email_extras, do similarly:

define('SEND_EXTRA_CREATE_ACCOUNT_EMAILS_TO_SUBJECT', 'n/a');

This way you don't need to alter the code in the "module" files.

That did not work.

[DrByte]

Okay, then maybe you're using altered code or not actually v151.

You can comment-out this line:

if (trim(EMAIL_SUBJECT) != 'n/a') zen_mail($paypal_ec_payer_info['payer_firstname'] . " " . $paypal_ec_payer_info['payer_lastname'], .....