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@chiangmai – It could be because it’s not compatible with BP, I’m not familiar with that plugin but not all WP plugins are compatible with the BP registration process.

I’ve had success with Wanguard and asking a specific question. I’ve only had one spammer come through in the last month. I tried other CAPTCHA plugins before, and the CAPTCHA wouldn’t show in IE.

I haven’t tried, was afraid to break something else. Now the request for an activation code is back right after I login following the link sent to the email. What’s causing this?

You are better off letting email go to user but remove the activation link. Create a function that hooks into member sign up to email you separately. I’m suggesting this because its better conversion for users to get the email.

`function email_admin_user_signup() {
//email admin code here
}
add_action(‘bp_core_signup_user’, ’email_admin_user_signup’);`

@chiangmai let’s go back to the root of the problem and deactivate BP Disable Activation. Resolve email send/receive issue https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

@nealw Curious, does the same email activation issue come up if you change to BP Default theme and activate bbPress plugin?

Hello there. Does anyone have the solution to this problem? I am experiencing the dame thing and do not know how to resolve it. The email that people receive is the same thing that Geeter posted into the pastebin.com
Please help. This is holding us up at http://www.commutertisements.com

I have the same problem which I will describe as follows

1. User registers by completing the form [they are at sitename.com/register]
2. They get a page saying – you have registered and please check your email to activiate
3. Clicking on the link takes them to the page sitename.com/activate which says “Activate your Account.
Please provide a valid activation key. With the field ‘Activation key” and the button ‘Activate’.
Copying the activation key from the email does NOT get rid of this page.
5. However
a. checking from and admin account shows that the user has been successfully registered (not surprising)
b. the user can navigate the sit without restriction – which they could not do before clicking on the activation email. So presumably the account has been activated – but they user is told that they still need to enter the activation key. They can log in and can navigate the site. Only the wouldn’t know that.

How to fix this? None of the advice above seems much use. Last thing I want to do is instal an unnecessary plug in when presumably this is supposed to work.

I am update to date with software as follows
WP 3.4.2
BP 1.6.1

Problem observed in Chrome and Firefox.

Thanks

In my case i’ve found that mails were sent but classified as spam.
Unfortunatelly some mail servers are blacklisted by some ISP for spamming reasons.
I’m looking for solve this problem because people that want to register in my site are unable to receive properly the activation code sent by email.
For now i change the output message shown in the registration process, alerting people to check into the spam folder, but hope to solve it in a better way

And https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mailfrom-ii/

Check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

Please share what the activation link the email looks like. If you don’t want to post it publically, send it to me at paul@buddypress.org. We’ve occasionally had reports of this issue but have not yet been able to figure out how to recreate it, so a copy of the email as received by the user would be helpful.

Sending any password in an email is a terrible idea. It’s not secure.

Geetar, can you share a copy of the email that a new user receives? Can you paste it onto pastebin.com, please?

p.s. most of Welcome Pack won’t work if you disable activation emails.

You could install the welcome pack plugin and customize the email to just a thanks for signing up note.

Or:

`function disable_activation_email() {
return false;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_core_signup_send_activation_key’, ‘disable_activation_email’ );`

For your info, If the emails you used to test with was AOL it probably won’t work. Maybe someone else may know why. AOL used to work with BP registration emails but there was some change they made that filters out BP registration emails from being received even in the spam folder. Even facebook doesn’t like AOL email addresses anymore. Try yahoo, and gmail instead.

Activation e-mails are not sending to my users either. This is very frustrating. Other topics are not helping either.

Hi,
try this in bp-custom.php
remove_filter( 'wpmu_signup_blog_notification', 'bp_core_activation_signup_blog_notification', 1, 7 );

source infos buddypress /bp-core/bp-core-filters.php

The concerned filter do this
/***
* bp_core_filter_blog_welcome_email()
*
* Replace the generated password in the welcome email.
* This will not filter when the site admin registers a user.
*
* @uses locate_template To see if custom registration files exist
* @param string $welcome_email Complete email passed through WordPress
* @param integer $blog_id ID of the blog user is joining
* @param integer $user_id ID of the user joining
* @param string $password Password of user
* @return string Filtered $welcome_email with $password replaced by [User Set]
*/