On the system admin>preferences>User Info Settings

there is a menu to choose how you would like to set activation for new users. (8th selection down)

There are three options

Requires activation by user (recommended).
Activate automatically.
Activation by administrators

I used to have this set to the third option, then I made a change to the groups I wish to notify and now it will not stick to this third option.
I can choose either of the first two but I can no longer get it to accept the Activiation by administrators option.

Any ideas?
Thanks.

1) What XOOPS version?

2) What change did you make to the groups?

3) Is the correct value getting stored in the database? In the xoops_config table, look for the row with conf_name = "activation_type". The conf_value column is the value of that parameter.

Sorry to be vague...

1.Xoops 2.0.7

2. no change to the groups themselves.
I had these settings to both notify and send activation mail to one particular group 'area supervisors'. This was working fine. I then went to change the above settings so that this same group were still sent notification but the activation email would be sent only to webmasters. After submitting that change, I arrived at the current, above situation.

3.it does indeed say 'admin'

I can verify though, that if I register, it sends an email to my account rather than what it used to do, which is send an email to the webmaster with a link to activate....

Any ideas?