Magento 2 : Is there any way to disable Welcome Email after signup

Question

What is the right approach to disable Welcome Email after completes registration process. I'm using magento2.1. We have an integration with a customer management system and which will sent email to customer after registration. So we need to disable customer welcome email sent by Magento.

I created a custom module to disable mail communication. di.xml

<type name="\Magento\Customer\Model\Customer">
        <plugin name="disable-email-confirmation" type="Company\Customer\Model\Plugin\Customer" sortOrder="1"/>
    </type>
</xml>

Model/Plugin/Customer.php

<?php
/**
 * Copyright © 2015 Magento. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */
namespace Company\Customer\Model\Plugin;

class Customer
{
    public function aroundSendNewAccountEmail(\Magento\Customer\Model\Customer $subject, \Closure $proceed)
    {  
        //$result = $proceed(); 

        return $subject;
    }
} 

This is not working. I'm still getting emails. I see some email communcation refereces inside AccountManagementInterface.

Answer 1

Create a plugin for \Magento\Customer\Model\EmailNotification. Update di.xml

<type name="\Magento\Customer\Model\EmailNotification">
    <plugin name="disable-email-notification" type="Module\Model\Plugin\EmailNotification" sortOrder="1"/>
</type>

then create the plugin

class EmailNotification
{
    public function aroundNewAccount(\Magento\Customer\Model\EmailNotification $subject, \Closure $proceed)
    {
        return $subject;
    }
}

Answer 2

You can override below file to disable it.

vendor/magento/module-customer/Model/EmailNotification.php

Look for below function in it.

public function newAccount(
    CustomerInterface $customer,
    $type = self::NEW_ACCOUNT_EMAIL_REGISTERED,
    $backUrl = '',
    $storeId = 0,
    $sendemailStoreId = null
) {
    $types = $this->getTemplateTypes();

    if (!isset($types[$type])) {
        throw new LocalizedException(__('Please correct the transactional account email type.'));
    }

    if (!$storeId) {
        $storeId = $this->getWebsiteStoreId($customer, $sendemailStoreId);
    }

    $store = $this->storeManager->getStore($customer->getStoreId());

    $customerEmailData = $this->getFullCustomerObject($customer);

    $this->sendEmailTemplate(
        $customer,
        $types[$type],
        self::XML_PATH_REGISTER_EMAIL_IDENTITY,
        ['customer' => $customerEmailData, 'back_url' => $backUrl, 'store' => $store],
        $storeId
    ); 
}

Than comment out lines which are used to send mail.

/*$this->sendEmailTemplate(
        $customer,
        $types[$type],
        self::XML_PATH_REGISTER_EMAIL_IDENTITY,
        ['customer' => $customerEmailData, 'back_url' => $backUrl, 'store' => $store],
        $storeId
    );*/

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