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Hi guys,

Great plugin – some very critical registration form elements!

I’m having some trouble with the mailchimp integration. When I enable it via the bp-xtra admin page, I get a 404 error after users submit the registration form, and no address is added to my Mailchimp list. The user still gets the activation email, but the 404 is kind of ugly

I’ve set up the plugin properly: added my API key and the ID for the group… but 404 page remains unless I disable the mailchimp checkbox.

Anyone have this problem? Or any idea how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,
Dave.

Can your site send normal WP admin emails?

Try creating a user in wp-admin – did it send you an email?

See also: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/no-user_activation_key-inserted/

Steffy,

couple of thoughts –

Is your base WP install working correctly – does it send admin emails notification correctly (e.g. when a new user is added in WP backend)? If not, it is a base email configuration problem.

Have you got any additional plugins installed – one of our clients had a problem with a CAPTCHA plugin interfering with the activation process.

If neither of these, there are a number of threads on this site, dealign with the problem of activation emails not being sent – it might be worth searching those.

Roger

“To disable sending activation emails you can user the filter ‘bp_core_signup_send_activation_key’ and return false.”

Regarding the email problem — who is your host?

@zlamczyk and anyone else who finds this — to redirect activation email to admin….

function my_redirect_activation_email()
{
return get_site_option( “admin_email” );
}
add_filter(‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_to’, ‘my_redirect_activation_email’);

I’m sure can be manipulated to plop user email in there.

Hi. I have found a solution to that no activation email has sent. Check this out http://www.thinkplexx.com/neokrates/fix-wordpress-and-buddypress-sendmail-problems-sign-up-complete-activate-your-account-via-the-email-but-email-doesnt-come

I actually used Google mail account. There in Google account settings also probably has to set that you use imap. I’m not sure of that. But now the activation email is sent and users can register.

@airrykah deactivate BuddyPress. It depends on your WordPress installation. Check if your install is sending out activation emails to those registering. Find resolution for your email problem at WordPress.org forums before activating BuddyPress.

If your WP activation email is working, deactivate any BP registration plugins and see if regular registration works.

Edit – there’s also a workaround, see if this works for you – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register

Hi Micah,

Try this:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register

And see if that works for you.

Are you sure that the email was not placed in a spam folder?

Login as admin and go to domain.name/members/userid

There should be a marking stating the person is marked as a spammer. This comes from not activating the account from the email. It can be easily changed by pulling down from the admin bar.

@slaFFik tried to create an account to test, did not receive activation email.

I’m also seeing the same issue using WordPress 3.0 and Buddypress 1.2.5. Zero BP plugins installed.

Email gets sent, user clicks on it but still gets the activation code screen. Enter the code results in an error message about the code being incorrect.

It’s not a very good first impression.

The “Mail From” plugin solved my issue of not getting activation emails when users signed up on my website. A million thanks for the advice!

NOTE: I did the ‘One Click Installation’ and the plugin works fine with this. No need to go through the manual installation as stated by some!

I’m using WP 3.0.1 and BP 1.2.5.1

Hosting: Hostmonster

Cheers

I have a problem with the mail-from plugin- whenever someone sends a Private Message it comes from the address set by the mail-from (which in our case is my address- now I am getting replies to people’s private messages because they hit Reply without noticing where it was going- this would not happen before because it came from no-reply @domainname.com

If you are on shared hosting accounts, you will need to check and make sure that your ip address is not blacklisted on the major email filter systems. The problem with almost all shared hosting setups is they share ip’s among many sites. It could be a completely separate site using the ip that is blacklisted, which will affect you. Many hosts like dreamhost have entire blocks of ip’s that are blacklisted, and just because the domain name on the ip changes, it does not remove the blacklisted ip. I can almost guarantee that is the root cause of most people’s problems as I had the same problem years back. It was only after I went dedicated and purchased ‘clean’ blocks of ip’s that all my problems went away.

Me too My issue remains the same.. I installed “Mail From” Plug in that solved the problem of sending the emails in the first place.

but the big problem are hotmail.. doing EVERYTHING I couldn’t get through their SmartScan Security.. “Or so as I was told in another blog” BuddyPress should really make a solution to this or at least specify the cause if it’s not related to BuddyPress..

it can me due to usage of free domains? that are listed at Microsoft’s BlackList? That can be my only conclusion.

@dinoraptor101 this thread is a year and 7 months old, generally old threads aren’t resurrected can you start a new post for any issues you are having.

fwiw if email servers are rejecting out of hand you need to check your mail delivery notification for error codes that should tell you why, if no failed delivery notifications then you’re doing something else wrong, however this is not necessarily a WP/BP problem unless you can establish that absolutely no emails leave the server.

Also check whether you have a SPF record issue – the likes of Hotmail will probably/possibly have implemented this policy.