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@ubernaut
No it is not supposed to happen but unfortunately it does. I believe it is more of a servers time handling of the activation email that causes this issue. I have seen this happen before and if the user just ignores the enter activation key and just logs in then they are successful.

@bphelp I haven’t been able to test this for you yet but I did notice yesterday that non-activated users get given a URL which is visible to anyone. For example, if you completed the registration form on my site and chose username ‘bphelp’ – even before you click on the link in the activation email you will be able to go to

mysite.com/members/bphelp

Here you’d see: Your name, the mystery man avatar etc.

Imagine a site that has lots of spam signups. They’d have hundreds if not thousands on unused URLs.

How is this currently handled by BP?

@garima-nag
Worked fine for me! After the user clicks the activation email link test it and see if they can just login even though it asks for an activation key. In other words just ignor that activation key page and login in using the credentials they signed up with. Let us know if they are able to login.

@nodeadbunnies
1.) You do realize BP is a WP plugin right? It is not its own entity therefor if the user registers with BP activated, they are also registering with WP.
2.) By default if a user enters a wrong password they are then redirected to wp-login.php if you want to include the lost password link there may be some login widget plugins that includes that link, other wise you could get that link from wp-login.php and hard code it into your child themes sidebar.php which may not be a good idea until you get a little more experience. Try searching for plugins that will accomplish this before going that route.
3.) You may want to check the spam folder to see if the activation email went there. If not then check your servers error logs and report back.

Hi,

I’m trying to edit the message body and I’ve managed using your code @henrywright-1 but in the process I have lost the link that they need to click on. I’m obviously missing a variable, can you help me identify what it is?

This is the code I have:

#-------------------------
# Edit activation email
#----------------------------
function activation_email_message_filter( $message, $user_id ) {
	$message = 'Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of your account please click the following link or copy and paste it into your browser\'s address bar:';
	return $message;
}
add_filter('bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_message', 'activation_email_message_filter', 10, 2 );

The email comes through with the edited message text, but the activation ink itself is missing.

@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?