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i don’t have the thread on hand but andy posted up a solution with filters/hooks to disable the email and change the user status

Just subscribing because I’m also interested in a solution to this.

@zlamczyk: I think we are trying to work on the same thing.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/disable-activation-email/

I am getting spammed (bad) and they are simply using the activation email to approve themselves. My thought was just do a manual approval to either “activate”, “send activation email” or “delete from wp-signup”.

I have modified manual member approve for BuddyPress so I can see the signup table and manually approve members.
http://mattkern.com/wpmu-manually-approve-new-members-on-local-install/

I just need to stop the automatic sending of the activation email. Do you know how?

I’ve simply tried commenting out the following line in wp-core-signup.php to test, but it’s not working.
wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message, $message_headers );

This is the function; but for some reason the activation email still goes out.

This thread has the closest solution I’ve found: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/i-would-like-to-disable-email-activation/?topic_page=1&num=15 Still has a couple issues to workaround though.

@hnla and @boonebgorges: I found this plugin a while back and modified it to work with BuddyPress. Let me know if you need it still.

Anyone know how to stop sending the activation email? I don’t want to disable the activation function; I just want to stop sending the email automatically. I want to selectively send it. I figure I would just add this function to the manual approve plugin so I could either:
Manually Approve
Manually Send Activation Email
Delete the Signup

I’m getting killed with spam users (that are easily identifiable)
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/spam-blogs/

Also; each “blast” of spam users/blogs appear to come from different IPs, but the username always has a 7 digit number pattern after a random name. They all appear to come from “.info” email registrations.

These registrations are bypassing the public registration form requirements somehow, but I believe they are legitimately activating their account (since I’ve had delays after disabling the registration form). There are entries in both _users and _signups tables that match.

Hope this helps if anyone else is having this issue. I’m open to any temporary solutions for this particular pattern, but more importantly is there a good way to solve this long term?

Is there a way to manually approve members? Maybe some step in between that would allow a manual send of the account activation email?

Disable BuddyPress. Do you get any emails from WordPress on itself? e.g. user registration, comment notification, etc.

If you put it in functions.php you’ll probably need to do something like this:
function auto_login_bp() {
//Automatically log the user in
$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
do_action(‘wp_signon’, $user_info->user_login);
}

add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘auto_login_bp’ );

Although, even then it might not know the $user_id variable. So, you might have to add the code in my original post to the bp-auto-activate-user-and-blog plugin on line 170 or so. Although, that will cause the issues I mentioned above I think.

@crashutah thanks a lot man for your responses and information. I’ve noticed that there is some differences indeed between single and MU handling the whole registration, activation, and log in processes.

I tried this piece of code (in my functions.php after the disabling activation and email bits) however it game me some weird behavior and my backend became non functional. I probably missed something (used the code as is while I needed to modify) or maybe one of my other plugins is causing misbehavior? I have auto redirect to profile on login plugin, and branded login plugin activated.

Cheers.

@mazen I just figured out the code to make it work on WP. I’ll add it to my plugin above soon. Here’s the code:
//Automatically log the user in
$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
do_action(‘wp_signon’, $user_info->user_login);

I tried it a little with WPMU. It kind of works, but there’s some sequencing that needs to happen better. Cause it logs me in, but not before the login box appears in the sidebar. So, it looks like you’re not logged in, but you are. Which is weird, because it’s not happening to me on WP. Although, it’s likely cause on WP I’m hooking to bp_core_signup_user and in WPMU it hooks to wpmu_signup_user_notification.

Who’s for a unified signup process (WPMU and WP) now that they’re one?

@mazen I’m planning to look at this as well. Just haven’t had time yet. My plan was to look at how this plugin does it: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-fb-autoconnect/ Hopefully that can be used to do the automatic login. I know there’s a paid plugin that does it so it’s possible.

hey guys, this is all awesome, btw the code to disable activation email from being sent is not working, however I edited that into a welcome email instead and removed the link. My qustion is, how can we automatically sign in registered users?

They are activated already so it is pointless to ask them to log in, really.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

Problem was a NOT-installed Mailserver on a v-server

A couple options to try: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/email-notification-not-working/?topic_page=2&num=15

I have had this issue as well and I am running WP MU 2.9.2 w/ BP 1.2.3. This also occurred in previous releases of BuddyPress.

Hi, I’ve just created my first installation of buddypress and I’m having the same issue. Activation email hasn’t been received for 3 accounts I’ve set up with 3 different email addresses.

any ideas? thanks!

Billy

Is there anyway to disable activation emails so that people do not have to click to activate their membership? We are using the s2member plugin and 95% of our paid users miss the email or it gets filed in bulk email.

Hey All
I am so glad I found this thread
I have 2 seperate hosting accounts both with Bluehost I have pretty much the same WP and BP setup in subdomains on both accounts. 1 setup was working fine and the other would not send tha activation code so I am thinking that maybe this is a problem on SOME but not all bluehost accounts.

anyhow … Thanks Ruthlessbookie for the find!

@stwc and everyone else.

I’ve been experiencing problems with spammers constantly, I would get about 11 a day, (at the minimum). I’ve tried several things, reCaptcha, email activation, email domain blocking, etc etc and nothing seemed to help with the bot spammers.

All they were doing was creating users with a few profile fields filled out, so there was no big issue, it was just annoying seeing so many fake users on the site.

So all I did out of the suggestions here was enter the code provided for the .htaccess file :

# BEGIN ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .yourbpsignupslug*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourhomedomain.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://die-spammers.com/ [R=301,L]
# END ANTISPAMBLOG REGISTRATION

And it seemed to have worked. For the signup slug, I used wp-signup.php. And so far, for about a day and a half now I’ve only found 1 bot spammer. Drastically reduced, but not quite fixed.

But we’ll see. I’ll post back if there is any change, or after a few days of no spammers.

@Hollosch I turned Andy’s code and my little addition to disable the email at activation into a plugin. I’ve posted it to my blog for now: http://www.crashutah.com/blog/juanchito/2010/05/12/buddypress-disable-email-activation-my-first-buddypress-plugin/ I’m still waiting for the SVN access to be able to add it to the WP plugin repository.

Also, right now the plugin only works for standard WP. I’m still working on disabling the activation email for WPMU, but have to figure out why it’s sending the email still.