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For example, this is the email that is sent:

“Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of your account please click the following link:

http://example.com/activate?key=5570d3e7b263884f2b63ed6d096571cb”

See where it says KEY? And all those letters and numbers afterwards? THat is the activation key.

“But where is the activation code that its asking me to enter…”

In the email with the link you just clicked. it’s part of the link itself.

“Clicking the link doesn’t add the activation code in the input field does it?”

Yes, yes it does.

Yes, you DID receive the activation key. it was in the link that you just clicked on. CLicking the link verifies your new account.

Can you post a link to your site?

The activation email is one email. It has the activation key in the link it sends.

Do you mean when you click the link you get, it shows “activation key not found” o your site? Because that is a different issue.

The email isn’t being received because some email places think it is spam.

I’m having the same problem. When I setup a test account then click on the activation email and try to log in it asks me for my activation key. If you do enter it from the email link you get an error. But either way you can move around the site fine.
I’m not understanding from the last post how to fix this. I’m using the Sidebar Login plugin, if anyone could tell me what to remove/change I’d appreciate it!
Or is there a way to have it auto redirect to the homepage after the activation link is clicked. That might also fix the problem?

I’ve tried to register on your site – got an email with the activation-link, but none with my login credentials. Not sure, Janrain Engage works fully with BP. Login via Twitter also does not work.

Ask your host to ensure your domain has a RDNS record for the server

I’ve mentioned this quite a few times on this support forum, if you want to get emails through to the more annoying of the email services out there you must ensure you have a RDNS entry PTA record and also an SPF entry for you domain hotmail is failing to be able to check these two records and thus considering mail from your server to be spam.

One thing this isn’t is a problem with BP or WP it’s about server and domain configuration.

@rossagrant

Here’s quite a comprehensive list of links to help you troubleshoot:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=606426

EDIT: that’s actually a rather old thread. This is probably better: http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx

I dig some digging into this problem since I was having it as well. The user’s account is activated successfully when they click the email. The problem occurs when you login from the activation successful page (activate.php). If the user opens another browser and goes to the site homepage to login, there will be no problem. For me, this was happening because the plugin that I was using to handle logins was including a hidden redirect to the source page in the form. So after the user logged in, it was redirecting to activate.php which by default asks you to activate, even if you are logged in.

So check the html for the form that you use to login and make sure there is no redirect to the source page.

Here’s how to get around activation. I was having the same problem on my test server, since it couldn’t send out activation emails. If you need activation emails enabled, then this workaround will not work for you.

For users that have already been created and cannot login, you can go into the wp_users table in the database and change their ‘user_status’ from ‘2’ to ‘0’ (if you have database access). ‘user_status’ is not used in WordPress — it’s a dead field — but Buddypress uses it to redirect to the homepage if a user has not been activated (aka user_status=2).

To avoid the problem for future user registrations, you can change a file to avoid activation (if you have FTP access). In the buddypress plugin directory, find bp-core/bp-core-signup.php. Find the line that says:
`$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( “UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 2 WHERE ID = %d”, $user_id ) );`
In my installation (1.2. it is on line 357. Change the 2 on that line to a 0. So it should look like this:
`$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( “UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 0 WHERE ID = %d”, $user_id ) );`

Now when a new user is created, they will automatically be able to login without their email needing to be confirmed.

Have you checked whether your server can send emails? Have your users checked their spam boxes? They ought to be receiving an email with an activation link.