Important Warning for phpBB and SMF migrators (creating new users into Joomla sends emails!!)

yuppers XAMPP is the easiest way to go, also if you have or can get it use NAVICAT we have found it to be far better than phpmy admin for working with mysql.

(UPDATE) forgot that runing migrator on local will cause a error due to mail function not being instantiated, so there is a fix for this that also kills the mailing issue on a live server site as well.
Its nasty but it works found this on joomla forum linky at bottom

make sure to make copy's of original files befor attempting this so you can replace back to original state when you have done the migration, it does work i have tried it :evil:

mailing work around

we have the same mailing problem in joomla! 1.7, trying to migrate from SMF2.0. We do get more errors about duplicate primairy keys, on which the migration stops. I guess I first have to find a way to fix the PKs otherwise a migration won't be possible, right?

btw, thanks for the mailing workaround!

Yes, unfortunately there seems to be no way to disable emails from being sent in Joomla 1.7 -- unless you hack it.

I think that I've found a solution

Can someone confirm if this works:

Go to Plug-in Manager and disable User - Joomla! plugin before importing.

Just remember to enable it afterwards...

It appears to work.

Can anyone else test if it works?

Well.
I think it should work even without disabling this plug in completely. Just use Basic options tab of it and everything makes clear!
Here it is a snapshot of this settings. Just disable second option and should be OK.