[kippesp]

Originally posted by Smoothie
Hi-
Is there a way to avoid this step? In other words is there a way for emails to be sent without first having the thread approved?

Sure. Take out the check for $visual in newthread.php. So what was:
if ($enableemail and $visible) {

now becomes

if ($enableemail) {

If this is how you want to use it, you would not need any of my changes to mod/moderate.php.