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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.

Hi,

U can try to do like that :
1. disable sending activation link by email, and sending the link of payment insteed
2. after the payment was acomplished, you redirect the user to his activation link

I recommend against disabling account activation, but I believe you can do so like this. Put this in your bp-custom.php:

http://pastebin.com/z3ec4Y5F
https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/bp-custom-php/

Also, there have been a few posts about activation keys not working. Most of the time, the cause appears to be related to the server not sending emails consistently, and other things outside our control.

But, if you can get an activation key on a clean install that, when you click on the link in the email, it doesn’t work, let us know what the URL looks like (even if you replace the domain) and what the key is. It’s not impossible there’s an obscure bug somewhere.

@mariilou if registration still doesn’t work if BuddyPress and other BP plugins are deactivated, have you tried deactivate other WP plugins to see if either of those conflict with your activation email. If email doesn’t work even with all plugins deactivated, then it’s a hosting issue with WP installation. Have you contacted webhost for tech support regarding your email issues?

Deactivate BuddyPress. Is activation email sent/received if you deactivate BuddyPress?
Also, read about email activation solutions –> https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

You might want to take a look at the JanRain plugin. It allows users to login with any social network account, fb, twitter, etc.. and has an auto create account feature. No password is required then.

~eric
http://www.abeo.us

Changing core code is never a fix. This is a terrible solution.

@dexpositoromero.
Thanks for the solution.
It worked!!

@britt2802

I’m not sure what you mean by backup.

If you mean just the database then the newer version bp files will still be there anyway….

Some other solutions were suggested in https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/buddypress-activation-email/

Do your settings conform to what is on https://my.hostmonster.com/cgi/help/206