How to have WordPress send a user confirmation/validation email on signup

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I have a WP 3.3 installed and running great. My client would like to confirm a valid email address by sending the user a confirmation email containing a link to “confirm”. I have played around with Pie Register a little bit but cannot get it to send emails like it says it can.

Are there other plugins or tools out there capable of the same thing? I don’t think its a huge deal but the client won’t budge on it.

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Also the site sends other emails just fine.

ideas?

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  1. This plugin does exactly what you need – Pie Register

    From WordPress.org Plugin Directory:

    Email Validation Hate fake emails? Make sure your users are not
    registering with invalid email accounts by forcing them to click a
    validation link that’s sent out with their registration email. This
    sets there username to a random generated string (something like:
    ‘unverified__h439herld3’) so they can’t login until they hit that
    validation link which will put their real username back in place
    allowing them to login as per usual. Unverified registrations have a
    defined grace period that will automatically delete an unverified
    account after a specified period of time, so you don’t get clogged up
    with those fakies. (Manage under Users > Unverified Users)

  2. maybe you server hasn’t a mail server ,you can use a plugin like WP-Mail-SMTP send email. but i find the pie register plugin register program is not safe,it can register same name and email if the previous register is not active.

  3. you can use the below when submitting the post of your registration form

    $userdata = array(
    'user_pass' => $user_pass,
    'user_login' => esc_attr( $_POST['user_name'] ),
    'first_name' => esc_attr( $_POST['first_name'] ),
    'last_name' => esc_attr( $_POST['last_name'] ),
    'nickname' => esc_attr( $_POST['nickname'] ),
    'user_email' => esc_attr( $_POST['email'] ),
    'user_url' => esc_attr( $_POST['website'] ),
    'user_account_type' => esc_attr( $_POST['user_account_type'] ),
    'role' => get_option( 'default_role' ),
);


    $new_user = wp_insert_user( $userdata );
    wp_new_user_notification($new_user, $user_pass);

    which will send confirmation mail to the user