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@asieger as hnla mentioned above, deactivate BuddyPress and BP plugins. Can you register/activate an account with BP deactivated?

You could also try Welcome Pack by Paul Gibbs – it allows you to send a welcome email and also customise the various more emails BuddyPress sends out:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/welcome-pack/

@asieger A rather basic question: Have you checked the Spam folders in your email accounts?

I do hope they didn’t really say could only be fixed by buddypress support. Generally email issues are not BP problems, and currently BP has no issues I’m aware of in sending registration emails, which also is really a WP function.

Easy check that should have been run first would have been and still ought to be tried is to disable BP and simply try registering an account under WP.

Often email issues fall under the heading of ‘Domain Record’ issues i.e email servers rejecting an email as it can’t be verified as authorised on the sending domain or there’s no PTR record or SPF record, or simply that the server sendmail is at issue, these though are not really problems that lie with WP or BP which normally happily send out emails.

Search this forum though as these issues have been discussed many times and you’ll find more info in the archives.

Hi @applegateian

The activation form is there mainly to give website admininstrators the ability to activate users accounts manually. So, removing the form won’t cause any problems.

One issue with the text you’ve added to the page – keep in mind any logged out website visitor viewing the activation page will see that text – so “your account has already been activated” won’t always be true.

hi,
i am having the same problem i can’t receive the activation email.
i tried with severals email adress but it is still the same.
amy idea,

Thanks,

Christophe

Can you receive an activation mail if you deactivate BuddyPress? Where are you hosted? Have you checked out possible solutions at https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/ ?

closing this topic in favor of same at https://buddypress.org/support/topic/email-activation-2/

BP has a very old bug where some activation keys didn’t work correctly. I have not looked into this for some months but, if I remember correctly, the issue was very hard for a developer to re-produce to be able to try to find out what the bug was.

Also, it’s possible that some site configurations might cause a problem. Does the activation link in the emails link to the correct site? Is the URL correct?

Probably it’s just in the spam folder. The activation email quite often seems to be marked as spam, unfortunately.

Mail server configuration can be tricky and I’d suggest you also contact your web host for support, as there may be other configuration changes that you or the host could make to improve the chances of the email being received correctly.

@yzord
Did you check for the activation email in your spam folder?

The activation email body can be filtered using bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_message

The subject line can also be changed bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_subject

For example: To change the subject line you would add this to functions.php

function activation_email_subject_filter( $subject, $user_id ) {
	$subject = 'Hello New User';
	return $subject;
}
add_filter('bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_subject', 'activation_email_subject_filter', 10, 2 );

@henrywright-1,

This is what i did to remove it from activation email, you can play with it to remove it from all

function fix_bp_activation_subject($subject) {
return __( "Activate Your Account",'buddypress ' );
}
add_filter( 'bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_subject ','fix_bp_activation_subject');

Naijaping

@jakewho

See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622#comment:8 for suggestions.

Also: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66204/showing-the-users-username-in-registration-email-or-activation-page-with-buddyp

and: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/prevent-spaces-in-wordpressbuddypress-usernames/

@designinhabit

For point 1:

See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4622#comment:8 for suggested work arounds.

Alternatively: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/66204/showing-the-users-username-in-registration-email-or-activation-page-with-buddyp