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This plugin might also be worth a look?

http://epicalex.com/new-user-email-set-up/

I originally used this to get round a problem of needing to manually add some new users to the system but didn’t want emails/activations being sent out immediately. It provides two very customizable sections one sent to admin one to new user, I simply swapped it round so that admin received the sign up email to a specially set up email account and the user got sent a “changes are afoot you will receive your login details shortly” type message, worked quite effectively.

Memory exhausted would explain why things suddenly stop working. Try putting this in your .htaccess file:

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

If that doesn’t seem to work, contact your host and ask them to do it for you

You don’t want to just activate random accounts. You might be activating a bunch of spam accounts for emails that don’t exist.

Seems like these are the functions you’d need:
-Resend activation email (possibly customize the email to admin’s desires)
-Manual activation for individual users (for those that contact you directly about activation)
-Clear users that haven’t activated (filtered by date)

Boone there is this plugin which is really for dev setups where passing emails through the dev network is awkward so allows you to register a user normally then go into backend and manually approve using the activation id

WPMU Manual Member Approve:
http://mattkern.com/wpmu-manually-approve-new-members-on-local-install/

Would you believe though I just tried to run it on my local site and it’s broken! at least it’s throwing an undefined function error bp_page_title()

Haven’t time to look into that but it doesn’t look to much of an issue.

Of course this doesn’t get round the issue of letting those users know they have been activated and not really sure one wants to simply activate a bunch of accounts when the users are never going to know about it.

Of course once activated and once you have established you are sending emails correctly you might be able to work some means of adding everyone to a group and posting an update to that group that will send a notification out to email addresses?

This problem is so host specific it’s hard to say. However, if you’re on bluehost, a few solutions have been posted in this thread (read both pages): https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/email-notification-not-working/?topic_page=1&num=15

Signups (including non-activated users) are stored in wp_signups table. I have looked briefly but have never found a plugin for WP admins to manage these signups (activating accts from the Dashboard, resending activation emails, etc). Hard to believe, actually, as it seems like this is an area of great need.

Maybe this is something I’ll write myself, as I’ve had need of such a thing on multiple occasions and I’ve usually had to dig directly into the db to find the activation keys.

Do non-BuddyPress specific emails get sent OK from your WordPress install? i.e. disable BuddyPress and get WordPress to send you a password reset email, or something.

White page usually means a PHP error. What’s in your web server error log?

I have the same problem. 50% of my users are marked as spammers
I think they don’t get the activation email, or it gets thrown in their SPAM folders..
It would be nice to have a functionality in WP to send them another email with activation link..

@dandelionweb


function my_redirect_activation_email()
{
return get_site_option( "admin_email" );
}
add_filter('bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_to', 'my_redirect_activation_email');


Add this to wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php or your theme’s functions.php file.

Try this https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/i-would-like-to-disable-email-activation#post-43474

Ahh okay, Erich! Thanks for the extra details.

It could be an issue with the email address that the activation email is sending from.

By default, the activation email tries to use the admin email option in WPMU.

If that isn’t set, it uses something like:

noreply@domain.com.

Which could be causing the activation email to go to the spam folder.

Try using the following plugin to set the email address:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

I am having the same problem, no activation email.

Using BP 1.2.3 and WP MU 2.9.2

HELP!!!

Just to clarify, I’m not in favour of disabling email activation, either. The spam you’d be getting would kill your site.

However, the site I was doing this for does not allow users to post status updates in the conventional form. The site is an anonymous image sharing site. Users need to be registered to submit an image, but they needn’t be registered as themselves. Every user has the option of using [username]@domain.ext as their email address if they choose to stay anonymous.

Status updates are replaced by img tags to the uploaded image. Yes, they could spam in activity comments, but I guess that’s a risk that had to be taken. Until someone figures out how to use akismet on those comments too…

In all honestly, I wouldn’t recommend disabling email verification. In fact – you actually should not only use that, but use it with Gravatar to double verify members. My BP communities are brand new, in dev stages right now. I’ve already been subjected to spammers which is why I support use of Gravatars – because not only will your users be verified in your community, but globally and this is a big step in spam prevention.

If you want to customize the registration page, many of them can be through your theme framework. However, too much code will slice your page & overall framework right down the middle and break your site.

Does this also work with the BP Compatibility plugin or would there be an extra step? I have no problems getting this hack to work with single user WP + BP. However, when I try it with WPMU, it doesn’t work. I thought perhaps it was due to the fact that I’m using the Compatibility plugin in conjunction, but even when that is deactivated the hack isn’t working. Thoughts?

sometimes it depends on your host too. emails from my default bp install on dreamhost tend to make the junk/spam folder (yahoo, gmail, etc)

I have the same issue. Tried installing plugins, changing email to a “legit” one rather than the standard noreply@xxxx.xxx, tried sending through SMTP rather than mail()

Nothing works.

Most likely Hotmails spam filter reacts to the activation link, that would be my guess at least.

I have a lot of problems with BuddyPress user registration in general. It seems:

– no emails are sent to the user for activation

– there is no “forgot password” feature

– there is no ability to (re)send the user an activation link, either from the user or the admin’s area.

On the emails, when I create a new user or blog via the admin area, I get a notification email, so it’s not a setup issue with the mailserver. The server is my localdomain/localhost dev box anyway. No webhost involved.

Ugh this may seem a small part of BP % wise but it seems without these features it’s really not usable. What is the deal? Can this fundamental stuff really be missing/so buggy?? It’s hard to believe.