@djpaul this is true…it’s also happening when i just deactivatate and reactivate BP. I have a strong feeling its my install. specifically, since it doesn’t seem to happen on other MU installs I have. but then again, all my others are Subdirectories not subdomains like this case.
Since now i’m also losing another super-admin owned blog too during this, not just the main site.
I’m just trying to track back now and see what the wp_bp_user_blogs is for and where is it being used.
If you want you can login using the guest logins I emailed you earlier and deactivate and reactivate BP while keeeping your eye on the phpmyadmin…to see the blogs disappear…that would be ok.
Check your error logs.
Check the files on the server.
When stuff suddenly stops working with no changes on your end, it is almost entirely something on the server side. Hosts DO run updates to the software on the server and sometimes settings get reset.
I am having the same problem but I don’t have BP Disable Activation installed. When a User signs up none of there information is being stored in the database but it still sends the activation email. When you click on the link in the email you get an error saying that activation failed.
The strange thing it this was working until the 9th of Jan, then it just stopped. Nothing has been changed on the site and I have been driving myself crazy trying to find out why it has stopped working, does anyone have any ideas of things I could try?
thanks
@sevenos … Is the system not sending? or are people not receiving? I had to put a warning message in the registration form to remind folks to check their junk/spam folders because 99% of all “missing” activation emails go there.
I think I’ve found an alternative to that plugin..
http://www.crashutah.com/blog/juanchito/2010/05/12/buddypress-disable-email-activation-my-first-buddypress-plugin/
And I just tried this.. works great!
Still, If anyone can help me with the system mail block please help 
Hello,
I would like to set activation link for new registrations and email change to 24 hours instead 2 hours as it is by default.
Pls, any ideas, which configuration, php file ???
Cheers
Hi, I´m new to BuddyPress (not so much to WordPress) and I´m having a bit of trouble getting it to work as expected.
Let´s go to the details…
I´ve setup two different installations of WP(Multisite) + BP in two different servers.
in both cases I get everything running with the exception of:
— @mention email notification
— friend request email notification
— reply email notification
strangely enough
— private messages
— new user regisistration
— new user activation key
get through and send the right emails
just for the record
Every user/profile used for testing purposes had a valid email address and all the notification emails checked in each profile configuration
WP(multisite) 3.0.4 with a single site for now and followed the installation guide
BP 1.2.7
No other plugin installed or runing
As I´ve said some Emails do go out (It´s not an email server problem) and just in case I´ve made some tests configuring SMTP but got just the same results.
BuddyPress is a great application and seems to work lovely with WP.
Is there a way to fix this problem and get those emails out?
That would be fantastic.
Please let me know of any possible tweak, tip, trick, hook or whatever may do the magic 
Thanks in advance,
Andrés
hi Avi M,
I am having the same problem. Also with Bluehost and initially I had a problem with activation e-mails. Nothing was sent and the new user could not activate the account as there were no e-mail of notification. Then I was advised to set up an e-mail account with them and still the problem persisted. After that I had install the Configure SMTP plugin which solved the activation e-mail problem only. Still there are no e-mails/notifications being sent sitewide. Can not figure out what I should do.
Can you tell me if you installed any additional plugin for this at all? How did you set up an e-mail address from Bluehost. Before I set an e-mail address and started using the Configure SMTP plugin, the general @box…bluhost.com e-mail was used which apparently was the default address.
Please share with us what you have done with bluehost.
thanks in advance.
hi,
it happens quiet often that a new registered BP user does not get the activation email (or does not understand to check emails).
Not very outstanding until here, but if that user (not yet activated) is trying to login with his username he will always just come back to the blank login screen.
No additional information, no possibility to click on “forgot password” – just nothing.
I know that that there are several admin-plugins to activate a pending user account or send the activation email again, but a simple page telling the user that he has to activate his account or to send the activation email again or something really would do it…
am i a blockhead, or is that a major bug because a social networking in a box is expected as user-friendly while registration and login process? ^^ – just kidding.
best regards
roman
# Paul Gibbs said 2 weeks, 5 days ago:
I agree that if an user tries to log in, who hasn’t activated their account yet, there should be more help in the default theme; there’s nothing stopping you from building this into a custom theme right now.
Please would you submit this as an enhancement request and we’ll build it into a future version of BuddyPress? Thanks
I recently started a Buddypress site and noticed more than 2000 members within 2-3 days. I have not even written a single post or promoted the website. They all look like spam.
Latest wordpress 3.04 and latest buddypress installed.
Akismet 2.5.1 activated.
Platinum SEO pack activated
Allow new registrations : Both sites and user accounts can be registered.
Can someone tell me how to prevent this.
Although the membership gets activated by clicking activation link in email, then how
I tried to register on your site to see what was going on, but I didn’t receive an activation email.
Can you go an activate me in Admin panel?
(it requires a plugin, “bp pending activations)
Try installing Email Log (https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/email-log.zip), which records all mails sent from the WP+BP installation, this will at least let you know if the activation email has been processed from the Site (According to the site itself).
There is also another plugin (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wp-activate-users/) which will allow you to activate users that dont seem to get the email or are just plain lazy.
I cannot for the life of me get the activation email to send. Can anyone please help? I’ve been working on this for over 12 hours straight now and am exhausted. Please help me! I’ve checked the box next to “allow anyone to register”, saved changes and installed the latest versions of “wordpress”, “buddypress”, “buddypress template pack” and “mail from” and it still won’t work. What else do I need to do?
Emails are *not* a WordPress issue. They are 99.9% issues with the host or your ISP. Every. Single. Time.
The reason they get dumped into trash or blocked by your ISP is becasue they are sent thru php mailer and have different header son them. Which is entirely due to the way your box is set and (as repeatedly mentioned) the way your ISP handles them on receipt.
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.
read few other threads on the same problem …. looks like its the case with bluehost. So I changed the host and everything is fine now. Thnks for the help.
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.
I just installed wordpress 3.03 with network enabled as sub-directory and BP.
I have enabled “User accounts may be registered”.
But when a new user fills registratioin form, activation email is not received. Can anyone help pls.
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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.
How can i register a user on my local server because Buddypress require email activation which is not possible on localhost server.
@Djsteve Did we jump off the happy truck today? My site is using WP+WPMultiSite+BuddyPress and a dozen or so plugins and, personally, everything seems to be running rather smoothly. Yes, there are a few disconnected pieces here and there – but I have PAID for scripts and plugins that ended up having as many problems if not more.
And yes, user management and no connection to Akismet or an ability to put CAPTCHA into the signup form seems like an obvious gaffe but …
I wish users would remember to check spam/junk folders but that’s a people issue outside of our control.
I am fairly certain that Akismet will be connected in v1.3.
@mateko No. At this time it is NOT possible to resend activation emails to BP members and nor can admins manually activate members from the console.
I have not tried it yet, but you may try deleting a member from admin and telling them to re-register and watch the junk folder.
Hopefully these issues will be addressed in v1.3
@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.
