Change the Site Administrator email

Change the Site Administrator email

by David Pelletier-Proulx -
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I would lke to change the email of the site administrator. I can't find where to change it. 

David P P

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Re: Change the Site Administrator email

by James Oxnam -
Change the email address in the primary site admin's profile.


Kind wishes,

James
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Re: Change the Site Administrator email

by David Pelletier-Proulx -

At the site level we have 8 administrator.  I'm one of them.  When I log with my account I can change everything except the The profile of the Admin Moodler.  Moodler is the 1st account created when we setup moodle.  But now when a user create a new account le email finish with

"If you need help, please contact the site administrator,
OLLearn Admin (moodler@ollearn.objectiflune.com) "

But there's no such site administrator.  And I can't change this admin account.

David P P

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Re: Change the Site Administrator email

by James Oxnam -
I would say that one of these admins is the primary admin.

It is in there that the primary email address for your site is set.

This address is where the admin messages are sent.

Anyhow, that is how it works on 1.8.


Kind wishes,

James
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by w dampier -
we've got the same problem. Have changed the primary site admin e-mail, but the e-mail in the confirmation message to new students is not changed.

Anybody got any ideas? Something in the language module maybe?

bd
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by ben reynolds -
As nearly as I can figure, the first person to create a Moodle site is the #1 admin, and that person's username + password are necessary to alter the primary admin's email.

But also, there are other settings in site> admin that affect emails.

W Dampler, what confirmation message are you talking about?
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by Ron Cuthbert -

Don't know if this is the "proper" way, but I did find a work around by changing the defaults in moodle.php.

In v 1.9.4.

1) Administration - Language - Language Editing

2) Edit Words or Phrases and select moodle.php from dropdown.

3) change the emailconfirmation setting to read what you want.  By default it pulls $a->admin.  Change this to youremail@yourdomain.com

Hope this helps.

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by cemil akdeniz -

Hello! I am a new user of moodle. Can you help me about the following problem please.

I created new account in my organization. But I haven't received any activation message to my e-mail address. So I can't activate my account. What should I do? 

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Re: Change the Site Administrator email

by Matt Gray -
On the admin block, it's in Server->Email.
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Re: Change the Site Administrator email

by Naveed Max -

I had the same problem.

Yes, if you change email in the server block, (server>email), Moodle system will use new email address and user will see that email address when they will recieve an email from Moodle.

In server block>email, change these two boxes below:

Support name: (Type new name)

Support email: (Type new email address)

 

Hope it will help.

Naveed

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by David Sensenig -

In 2.4, it's Site Administration>Server>Support Contact. The new email was listed as the default, but the old one was still in the text entry field.

Thanks Naveed for pointing me in the right direction!

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Re: Change the Site Administrator email

by Dicker Bub -

Hi!

In my case (2.01), moodle had lost the entries for the SMTP-Server.

Cheers,

L.