How to disable new user registered email to admin

Question

When a new user registers, there's an email sent to the admin in the form:

Subject: Account details for [name] at [site name] (pending admin approval) Message: [Name] has applied for an account. [profile URL]

How can I remove this email alert? The reason being, that I've created a customised message triggered by the Apply for role module. Thanks.

Answer 1

This email is not configurable via the UI.

You can use hook_mail_alter(), which will allow you to stop the sending of a message. So you would create a custom module that does this:

/**
 * Implements hook_mail_alter().
 */
function MODULE_NAME_mail_alter(&$message) {
  // Stop the default drupal email that goes out to admins when a user
  // registers on the site. An alternative email is sent out via other means.
  if ($message['key'] == 'register_pending_approval_admin') {
    $message['send'] = FALSE;
  }
}