Magento Store - Don't Send Newsletter Success Email

Question

When users subscribe to the newsletter on A Magento Store they receive a confirmation email. Is it possible to prevent this email from being sent?

There doesn't seem to be an option in the back end for this.

Answer 1

Do you mean success or confirmation (need to confirm to get newsletter) email?

The latter can be switched off in Configuration->Newsletter

Answer 2

The file you want to override is Mage_Newsletter_Model_Subscriber. Create a class that overrides that model, and then replace two methods like this:

<?php

class Somepackage_Somemodule_Models_Subscriber extends Mage_Newsletter_Model_Subscriber {

    public function sendConfirmationSuccessEmail() {
        return $this;
    }

    public function sendUnsubscriptionEmail() {
        return $this;
    }    
}

This will disable newsletter subscription (and unsubscription) emails to customers.

Hope that helps!

Thanks, Joe

Answer 3

A much easier way, although it is kind of a hack, is to look for the method sendConfirmationSuccessEmail which sends the emails. It is found in:

app/code/core/Mage/Newsletter/Model/Subscriber.php

The only thing you gotta do is to put a return true at the first line of the method.

Answer 4

Isn't there a way to do this through the Magento Configuration settings, instead of modifying the magento core?