You could also hook_mail_alter to change $message[&#39;to&#39;] where the server name (or host name, but I use `uname -n` instead) does not match your production. I recommend this over reroute_mail especially if you have a custom utilities.module or similar that you already use on the production site. You fix it once and forget it.<div>

<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Kristin Stromberg <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kstromberg@gmail.com">kstromberg@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

You can disable various email notifications under admin/config/people/accounts. On your development box, you might want to use the reroute email module (<a href="http://drupal.org/project/reroute_email" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/reroute_email</a>)<div>

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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Iain William Wiseman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:iwiseman@bibble.co.nz" target="_blank">iwiseman@bibble.co.nz</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">


Hi,<br>
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Is there a way to turn off sending of e-mail when updating user accounts. My understanding is that e-mails are sent when an account changes from inactivate to active. Love the functionality but testing with real data makes this inconvenient. On my development box I have turned off the MTA but this could easily be forgotten in future testing.<br>



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Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">
Iain<br>
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