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Activation emails are not sending from my site either. What is the best way to fix this problem? I have been reading many posts about this problem but none of the advice has worked for me.

Read this: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wpmu-Wordpress-Mu-PluginsThemesAndNews/~3/pgTwacuDc6A

Changing your outgoing email address might fix

@rogercoathup

Great to read about your success with BuddyPress and Enterprise Nation.

Customizing registration appears to be a must when creating a high load community. There is a lot of heavy lifting that needs to be done during signup which requires a custom process.

Interesting that you do not use and activation email.

The site appears to be locked down from a BuddyPress standpoint. No Activity Stream?

@neononcon you might want to check out WangGuard (free in WordPress plugins) for help in limiting spam registration.

~eric

@elangley

It’s a requirement of law that email gets run thru filters and may get sent to spam. Might be the email header ain’t right.

see https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

section: BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications)

Disable Welcome Pack. Do emails send?

Second Problem

How to turn off password required in registration page of BP/WP the reason is I have another plugin that admin grants access:New user Approval.

Once approved this plugin sends out in an email a NEW password.

User gets frustrated as they have already entered a password at registration they arethen “forced” to use another password once they have been approved for access.

Net is how do I turn off password required at registration!

I have consistently found the activation process to be a problem.

There should be a “plugin” that allows Admin to work around the problem.
In my case I have the following two problems cases:

1) User Registration – the BP requires a password
2) Email sent to user for activation – user forgets to respond or loses email.
3) User tries to log on and gets they need to activate account
4) User has lost the bloody email
5) No clear method to resend another activation key
6) users tries to register again and wants to keep the same user name
7) gets rejected because the”username” is already in use

No. It’s not normal behavior. Check if you have a plugin which auto-activates user accounts.

I think it is possible the email problem might be due to a hosting problem, we are currently on a Godaddy shared hosting account which has some email restrictions. But i’m still confused as to why there was emails coming before (no emails are going out now) and there was text in the email but just no link.. Would a hosting company remove links from emails like that or ? Strange..

Also, we’re using a foreign language version of WordPress and BuddyPress which both have completely translated mo files but the email came in English. Could this be related or another issue?

It is WordPress 3.3.2 multisite installed in the root directory. We have a custom theme but based on bp-default without many modifications, certainly not any to the mail functionality except we had tried the Welcome Pack plugin but the activation link did not appear in that email either. This problem has occurred even without any other plugins running but BuddyPress.

It seems to be a variable that should be created called $activate_url in /bp-core/bp_core_filters.php . Is there a way to add a filter there or somehow create another email to take precedence over this one?

We’d like to keep email activation but if it doesn’t work we will have to manually re-send emails or disable it? Both seem like bad solutions, such a basic feature should be working without any tweaks to the system.

See Registration -> BuddyPress isn’t sending out emails (eg. activation emails, email notifications) https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

i have the same problem too with Jloc14, when im registering user they cant find the activation link on their inbox! please help me regarding this problem. thanks.

There are genuinely a lot of reasons why your web server may not be sending emails. The activation key is contained in this email. As a first step — and I’m sure someone will post here with a much more complicated answer soon — contact your web host and ask them if they support PHP’s mail() function; specifically, is PHP configured fully to send emails.
Most web servers can send emails, but the ‘From’ headers are not properly set, so most of the time, they don’t get delivered to the recipient properly.

If they come back and say that the From address in the email doesn’t match the name of your site (quite often this occurs in a virtual server situation), try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

If that doesn’t work, or they say you need to specify an SMTP server, try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/

I am having the same activation key problems. Members who are trying to register are not receiving an email.

hi,
i’m getting the same error
user can register, he gets the email with the verification key, so he confirms and can log in
after logging in, the site redirects him to the activate page
copying and pasting the key from the email inside the input text doesn’t work though
he always gets redirected to the activate page
any idea?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-activation-keys/

Activation key is generate key by wordpress and sended to the email of registred member. The new member must activate his account by clicking in the activation link ( the link contain the activation key)

Activation is used to detect if the email exist and blocking multiple registration by the same email ( spammer), and many others advantage ….

There is any settings for email activation in buddypress,you must add some code in your functions.php to disable sending activation email after resgistration.

i was code for old version for buddypress, im not sure that will work. I will try to update it and i send u.