I would like to see a welcome email being sent out to all users who have successfully registered (contents of the email being defined via the ACP).

The same email would of course need to be sent out to members manually validated via the board admin(s) if admin/email validation is switched on.

I feel this would be a good addition to the IPB software as officially being welcomed to a website/forum would look very professional to a new member or potential client.

Another reason is that such a feature could be very handy for board admins who use admin/email validation because the email could be used for letting the user(s) know their account is now active and that they can log in.

Currently, if an admin manually validates an account it is a lottery as to whether the user ever returns to the site and attempts to log in with their updated account. This way at least they will know!

Maybe such a feature could potentially raise the membership numbers on many of our forums :)

Sounds great, +1

Firm +1

The option to choose between a welcome email and a welcome PM would be nice.