Reply To: Make sending emails and collecting phone numbers optional

We only allow logged-in members to sign up, so we already have their validated email address. And for most of our purposes, there is simply no need for a confirmation email — the sign-up sheet on the site is all that is needed.

I realize the phone numbers are only displayed to admins. What I meant regarding security was that any information stored on a shared webhost, particularly using something as popular as wordpress, cannot be considered secure. Since we do not need the phone numbers, I prefer not to have them stored in our database at all. And I certainly prefer not to have the phone number a required field as it is at the moment.

But thanks for the tip about the SMTP plugin — we may look into it.