Hi,
I hope someone can help me with this.
I recently switched to a new web-hosting service and transferred the entire thing from the old server. The forum is working "almost" fine, people can post, read and upload attachments, our member list remains intact, it just looks like nothing really happened. However a couple of glitches drive me nuts. Our forum is invited-only and I have enabled email verification but when they click on the link provided in the email, it gives them a 406 Not Acceptable error. Exact the same thing happens when people use the "forgot password" feature and click on the link in the email to verify their request. I put a .htaccess file under "public_html" and "public_html/cgi-bin/forum" but no luck. This is what's written in my .htaccess file:

Code <IfModule mod_security.c> SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST Off </IfModule> order allow,deny allow from all

I contacted the system admin and got this respose:

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It is most likely violating one of the server's default mod_security rules. If this happens to you it may be a common thing and maybe someone at their (E-Blah) site can assist.

I don't really need E-Blah to automatically email the new applicants a validation email because whether or not they validate their screen name, they can't get on the forum unless I validate their account. Actually I would rather want it to stop emailing. The vast majority of our members are computer illiterate so when it was working fine on the old server, they kept asking me why they couldn't get in despite the fact they validated their screen name.
As for the "forgot password" feature, I definitely need it to work properly. Can someone please look into this and help me sort it out? Any help would be highly appreciated. If anyone needs my forum's URL or FTP information, I will be more than happy to share it via PM.

OK never mind. I managed to fix this on my own.
So now the only thing I want to change is screen name validation. Is there any way to stop E-Blah from sending an automated email to a newly registered member with the link in order for them to validate their screen name? Like I said, validating their screen name doesn't grant them access. They must get me to validate their account to get in. I just want the validation process to be simple - people register a new account, I get a notification, see if they are legit, then validate their account and inform them of that automatically.