Reply To: Help! Activation Email not sent–nothing works
For the record you do not really need to be adding further plugins to WP to sort out what is actually not an issue ever related to an application but rests at the server / domain level and in correct server sendmail or other versions of smpt/relay programs configurations and of properly configured email dns records, and requires a little technical knowledge when things don’t work out of the box. Plugins will try and bridge that gap between correct configurations, and users technical knowledge and I guess if they work alls well and good, but better is that things are sorted out at the real point of breakage.
So just to clarify this does not need to be done so that WP/ BuddyPress can send emails they have no problem sending emails as long as the server and domain records are correctly setup.
If your emails are being continually dropped into spam folders it’s because the email server receiving them isn’t able to validate the server as valid for the domain and you likely need to set an SPF record and possibly reverse DNS records but the latter is usually something the host providing the IP address for the server needs to set.
