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WHAT THE HECK? I get every email from wordpress and buddypress except the ac. email.

IT WAS WORKING like Yesterday! I upgraded to wordpress 3.0.4 and UHHHH!

It’s so funky, my emails totally fluctuate. I just installed 3.04, and activation emails are not being sent out. I will have to go into troubleshooting mode tomorrow….

I wish wordpress would really fix this, I am getting %&$% tired of email problems.

The emails at one time would appear right smack away, but I recall the emails taking a massive amount of time to appear, so I would recommend a notice on the register page about this.

It may also be the perennial problem of them simply not RECEIVING the activation email. Be certain to mention to people registering to check their junkmail folder if they do not receive the activation email within a few hours.

WordPress, not BuddyPress plugin, handles email activations. It could also be because of webhosting configuration. Deactivate BP and BP-dependent plugins, then double-check if activation emails are sent from your installation. Check for resolutions from
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/
WP.org forums https://wordpress.org/search/activation+emails+not+sent?forums=1.

Just create a user in the backend and tick the checkbox to not send the password mail. This is the easiest option.
You can also configure your local machine to send out emails. You’ll find tutorials on doing this on Google.
The last option is to get the activation key from the database and then navigate to the activation page.

@mercime … Converted my site to MultiSite on Thursday and installed the recommended plugin. No change. My guess is that this plugin work ONLY for multisite blogs that have been created, not overall users. I see this message when I click the link for the plugin “No user activation keys in $wpdb->signups.”

Here’s my problem right now. I have WP+BP-based site. I soft-launched to a select 100 or so friends. 75 started the process. Of those, a large-ish number did not get the activation email and did not complete the sign-up process.

The ONLY way I know this is from the few that reported they did not receive the activation email and have asked me to resend – which there is no way of accomplishing this simple task. AND counting the number of users in the admin panel USERS and comparing it to the BP Site Stats plugin that counts the active users.

Should not the Admin–>User area include some indication whether a user has been “activated” or not? AND give us the opportunity to “Re-Send Activation”? Seems like a logical management tool.

@mercime Thank You! I will look into it … right now its WP+BP not multi-site.

@thealchemist if your WP is multisite, you can use dsader’s plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-activation-keys/

I have a similar issue. I know activation emails are being sent. However, some of these emails get sent ot junk and the member doesn’t know to check. When I go to the “Users” section in the admin I see nothing that indicates non-replies as spam and certain no way to “activate” a member.

Is there a way to resend activation?

I have a problem where some are not being received – likely gone into junk folder – and the member needs a new activation setn. Is there a way for me to either re-send the activation email? or simply activate their membership from within the admin?

you also have a header issue when clicking on the activation link from the email… idk if you were aware of that or not?

Bluehost problem https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/

Are they not getting *sent* or are they not getting *recieved*? Becasue those are two separate issues.

Are you the admin getting email notifies? If yes, then you know the mails are getting sent.

If some users are not receiving emails, do they have hotmail or comcast addresses?

I use Bluehost as well, and had similar problems… I tried just about everything, and the only thing I could do was use an SMTP plugin… This is the one I use: http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/configure-smtp/

Here are a couple things I learned, so you don’t have to bang your head as much as I did…

– use ‘localhost’ as the SMTP hostname in the config file
– Make SURE you are using an email address that is being hosted on Bluehost for the username/password

Good luck!

Oh so emails are being sent then!

As mentioned work in just WP ensure that option to allow user registration is set and test again and send to an account that you has no issues i.e accounts like hotmail can be problematical as they implement iirc SPF records and will likely reject emails coming from a domain they can’t verify so ensure the sending address is real. There are quite a few threads on the support forum on this subject that cover most of what I can suggest and more, so they are worth tracking down although I admit searching can be awkward.

Nearly always a server config issue or a email account one i.e no dns records for account, or a control panel such as plesk playing it’s tricks with email settings enabled but directing to a record that isn’t setup.

First thing is to disable BP and just get WP working and sending correctly. use an email account that has definite and legitimate credentials so that email servers don’t reject it due to no lookup records.

You might want to pas this by your server hosts for help with.

I don’t think it will work with a gmail account (at least without a major hack). It probably has to be somenameofanysort@yourdomain.com Then, you have to make sure that email is setup on your hosting.