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**SOLVED**

Thank you @Aces for answering and being helpful. All seems to be working now. I will post the solution below for those, like @Whisprr, who have the same problem:

Basically, the “WP Mail SMTP” plugin method from the link Aces provided worked. I just think the link is very vague and doesn’t explain at all how these plugins are supposed to help or what exactly you are supposed to do with them–it just says ‘most people found these helpful’. So I had to watch this youtube video, which explained how to solve the issue using the WP Mail SMTP, step by step: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GsHbf4Gitw

Watch it! I would just skip the part about using the FTP to finish installing the plugin (skip 3:00-6:20). The plugin should install perfectly fine.

Essentially, anyone who has the activation/registration email problem needs to download the “WP Mail SMTP” plugin and then enter the correct settings, as described in the video. I ran into a problem (mentioned earlier in this post) because GMAIL does not allow the plugin access to the account and labels it as suspicious activity–this kept returning an error message in the debug (test email). I also didn’t feel comfortable putting my real email’s username and password, un-hidden, into the username and password form, so I created a new YAHOO account especially for sending emails from my wordpress blog instead of my normal account, to use for this plugin.

It worked! The debug/test email did not return an error and when I tested the registration for my site, I finally received the activation email–albeit buried in my spam folder.

Hopefully this helps others because BuddyPress and Word Press do not make it clear that this needs to be done in order to SEND (rather than receive) email from your account or for member registration to work–this is why many people who are Word Press novices can become confused when site registration doesn’t work.

I am new to BuddyPress and creating a site using WordPress.com

Any idea as to what address/program sends the activation email? That is, what defualt email address do the activation emails come from? And is it WordPress, BuddyPress or my host that sends out the email?

Should I have done some configuring to this address first?

after changing some of the plugin settings, I get:

SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: (0)

The following From address failed:

Aces, I’m not sure how to read the report , but the error messages are:

SMTP -> FROM SERVER:554 5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: Access denied

SMTP -> ERROR: RCPT not accepted from server: 554 5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: Access denied

SMTP Error: The following recipients failed:

Hi Aces,

I meant to write in the original post that the emails are not in the trash/spam/junk folders.

Also, I’ve visited the link you posted and the only advice given is:

Members of the BP community have had success using:

I installed the WP Mail SMTP plugin and resent the activation key. Still, no email.

WP did/does send me admin emails without a problem.

Hi Aces,

I meant to write in the original post that it does not go the junk/spam or trash folders either.

Also, I’ve visited the link you posted and the only advice it gives is:

Members of the BP community have had success using:

It doesn’t elaborate on how these plugins are supposed to help, but I installed the WP Mail SMTP, anyway.

I resent the activation key and still no email. WordPress did/does send me admin emails with no problems

Hi

I am doing some further tests and I can see that the wordpress password reset email takes about 10 minutes aswell. Is that a buddypress issue (it takes about 2 hours),wordpress or godaddy?

thanks in advance

I have the latest version of wordpress and buddypress.My host provider is godaddy and my internet connection is excellent.

Regards

I think I just figured out the problem. I had my one browser open and logged in, tested sign up in another browser, when I clicked activation email it opened in another tab in my default browser that I was already logged in to 🙁 DOH! I deleted everything and ran again and no errors.

@mercime thanks for that.

But when I change the subject of the Activation Email it does not change anything. The subject is the same as before.

Also there is no option to send a welcome email. Only a welcome private message, which isn’t what I was looking for because I wanted to provide them with their username and password in the email (and obviously they’d need that to login and see the private message).

Is there any other ways to get this done?

you’re probably right.

Though I’d be curious to hear from any of the buddypress experts (or maybe just wordpress experts in general – I am not a big php or wordpress guy) how it is that the function for the activation emails is pulling in the $key where it does not appear to be defined or set up anywhere in the bp-core-filters.php file*, it just appears and is handled as such. I assumed if the filter were set up to attach to that function, it would pull in whatever that function pulls in it’s original context.

*http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/redmine/projects/openlab/repository/revisions/028e8c7af06906d09b18f01fdee8951bf076c0ec/entry/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-filters.php

hmm, good point. though it seems to me that the query there is assuming a key has already been generated and is associated with a user in the db. The email goes to brand new users that haven’t activated yet, so not sure where to step into the actual $key generation process. I’ll dig around further.

thanks!

Could it be from one of the plugins or functions I have? I had a function which I used so it can change to use my email instead of wordpress@mysite.com so I deleted that function but I was still getting the same problem. I also has a login attempt plugin thinking that might be it so I deactivated it but still didn’t fix the problem.

I can list all the plugins I have if you’d like? in the meantime I’ll re-activate bbpress and go down the list and deactivate plugins and try registering with a test user account.