Moodle in English

Hi

The core Moodle doesn't have a facility to send SMS. When your hosting agent talk of "messages" he must have meant e-mail. One negative mark for him.

One doesn't have to know Moodle to understand that for each account you create where the user has to confirm the account (and set a new password) a mail will be sent. So if you do it for 100 accounts via CSV 100 e-mails will be sent. You must ask him how much e-mail is too much for him. If, for example, 10 per hour is acceptable, you can break the CSV file in to portions of 10 and keep on submitting them one per hours - if the (dis)service of the hosting agent justifies that. In any case, second negative mark.

You feel, getting access back to your files is a favour? Who suggested deleting scripts from Moodle as a remedy? Is this really a commercial service or some bureaucratic apparatus? Don't change Moodle code! If your Moodle site still running the first thing you need to do is to take a site backup and download it to your local computer. If that turns out to be another adventure, at least take course backups of each course and download them.

About Moodle sending e-mail even you haven't set SMTP: Moodle will still send e-mail if there is a SMTP service running in the same server (localhost) where your Moodle is running. You can send yourself a message, this time messaging, and look at the full header of the message you receive via e-mail.