Re: email validation on registration: does anything additional need to be installed?
Are you using the Validate user's email server option? If so, it means that Tiki was unable to validate the user's email server and is failing the registration test (which may be due to your sever settings).
Please see the docs for details.
HTH,
-Rick
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