What kind of support forum is this? If you google about this “buddypress activation email problem” it’s all over the !@#&% place, and no one has an answer? I’ve seen forum after forum post, thread, question, whatever and well over a dozen “fixes”, none of which have worked for me.
This is absurd. Registrars not getting their activation emails and, as a result, not being able to log in, basically renders Buddypress USELESS. I wished I’d known about this before I spent the last three !@#&% days customizing my site.
Here’s an idea… Don’t release this crap without being 110% sure that the most important feature (people being able to become members) works.
And at the very least can you guys answer the question… How can we fix the problem?
The “Mail From” plugin does indeed work. In the Dashboard I had to go to the Settings menu, in there was listed the “Mail From” plugin. The sender email was a nonexistent account, which was the problem. I changed it to an existing account. I just created a new user account in the website, and the activation email was sent out, immediately. And it worked, too.
Problem solved.
Apparently it now does work. Although it took a few hours for my activation email to arrive, it did. But, the sender email address wasn’t the admin email (the one listed as the one from which all activation/notification emails are sent from) it was an weird email from BlueHost. mybluehostusername@box###.bluehost.com.
Should I take this up with Blue Host? Or is something else wrong?
OK, I have a BuddyPress install on my website, which is hosted by BlueHost.
I’m using WP ver 3.0 and BP ver 1.2.5.2.
I have searched all over for the solution to the problem apparently addressed in this thread, but the suggested “Mail From” plugin doesn’t work. I just logged out as Admin, and signed up as a regular user. The site told me my registration is complete, pending my reception of the activation email and subsequent clicking on the link contained.
There was a suggestion in this thread, I think, to go to the Options menu and edit the Registration email configuration, I cannot see any way to do that.
It has come to my attention that when a person registers on a website with buddypress, they only get 1 warning about checking their email to activate their account and that happens when they first register. When a user wants to login and they haven’t activated their account. It simply denies their login and pretends that their account does not exist. There should be a message saying:
“your account has not been activated. Please check your email, or resend activation key”. So this would basically prevent them from getting frustrated and leaving the site because this damages our promotions for signups.
Anyways am I the only person concerned about this?
I’d like to add my registration form below forum topic for visitors to easily log in and participate without having to change screens and find the thread again. Pasting in the form is easy, but I’m having issues with the form action and I have no idea how to keep users on that thread.
Right now, I use BP Disable Activation (email) and I redirect logged in users to their profile pages. I would need a custom script after the form to keep/return new members on the thread.
Anyone figured out how to do this?
Someone has just suggested to us that they are convinced it is a php/SMTP conflict related to the multiple installs or wordpress.
Any idea what this means or how to go about fixing this issue…
HELP
If anyone could suggest a 5 star idiot proof plugin for BP WP noobz please, please, please let me know. Just need to fix this issue.
THanks
I am actually having the same issue as the first poster – but her issue kind of got derailed after the 3rd post…
I currently am trying to install different mailing plugins but nothing has worked yet.
There seems to be zero connection between emails and the sites content, however the internal site communications are working fine.
Sorry I meant SMTP Email Plugin
hey everyone,
today our contact/ account activation system decided to stop working on our site. When users sign-up for the site, Dormset.com,
they should receive an email to their designated email address to activate their account. Until today we have had no issues with this system, but all the contact functions from the site decided to stop working today. We tried installing WP STMP email plugins but nothing is working. I am just baffled because yesterday it was working fine and today its kinda mayhem.
We contacted our Host service provider as well and they guaranteed us this is not an issue on their end.
Our site is a new social networking system for musicians and it is essential that members be able to join our community – especially so early Dormset’s launch – so some speedy help would be much appreciated 
If there is a telephone number i could contact that would be much appreciated as well – need some serious help. Thanks!
-Dormset Staff
you’ll have been sent an email with an account activation link, clicking that will activate the account and enable you to log in. (I have just done this myself using my WP3.0 test install).
Cool, glad that worked for you!
I installed the “Mail From” plugin and it’s working now.. Hosting company is “HostMonster” which is part of a parent company that owns, Powweb and a number of others, possilby BlueHost as well…
Welcome Pack will also do this in next version; I’m working with @crashutah on it. (end plug, hehe).
Use the BP Disable Activation plugin by @crashutah –
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-disable-activation/
Make sure you add a captcha plugin or some type of spam prevention!
How can one remove the activation email process? Here is the ideal registration process for me – user enters id/pwd/email etc and after the captcha is verified, we’d like to have him start using the system (and not wait for the activation email).
Any suggestions?
Take an activation URL in the activation email (send yourself a fake one if you don’t have one lieing around). Then, go into something like phpmyadmin. Look at the table for users (it’s different if you’re using WP vs. WPMU) and find the activation key. Replace the key in the URL and now you can use that URL to activate the account.
I’ve also heard rumor that someone might be working on a plugin to deal with this type of situation.
How do you deal with user lost activation emails. 90% are handled by directing them to their spam folder, but there’s a few that say it’s not there or they don’t have access to their spam folder at work… I moved an existing site into WP/BP and people are pretty attached to their usernames.
My problem with the activation e-mail is that when you click on the link in the e-mail it goes to google page not found listing the URL including the additional code .. however I found that by getting people to copy and paste it into their browser it did work .. not ure what is causing this problem. If it works in the browser why is it not working in the e-mail?
If you’re on BlueHost, there have been issues with the email being sent.
You can try the proposed solution listed here.
Help?!?!?! I am having the same problem except once a new user the hits “Submit Query” (which why does it say that anyway rather than register?) it just comes back to the same page with no error message. I am running WPMU 3.0BP 1.2.5.2. Everything was working fine. I’m not sure if it was the upgrade or a plug-in I installed, or some stupid error I made. I note that the last person who registered was 5 days ago. I am very new at the program and do not know yet how to code (but trying to learn!) I’ve dug all over, but can’t seem to figure it out. I am presenting the site at a conference for a school project, and now it suddenly stopped working! I am a broke grad student, but if someone can help me out, I can throw a few bucks their way if they can help me get it fixed before Saturday! The site is http://www.impacollective.org . I can be reached to chat or email at digitaldance007@yahoo.com . PLEASE HELP!!!!
I’m happy to delete all the new users since they shouldn’t be here yet anyway But I still can’t get any email to send outbound. I used the same host / setup with Joomla with no issues… Is there no way in WP/BP to see the email setup? To tell it to try sendmail or to use a specific SMTP server? That seems like huge missing feature???
