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To update this thread, I’ve just added a fix for emails not sending for certain server configurations. See https://buddypress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-buddypress-2-5-master-list/ and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6947

I think this will help many people, but I would surprised if it fixed everything for everyone. Fingers crossed!

2.) Then when altering configuration (i.e. adding add_filter( ‘bp_email_use_wp_mail’, ‘__return_true’ ); to BP_Custom), and testing again, the emails output a combination of WP Better Email and the default template with various CSS Styles altering different parts of the email with each new email sent.

BTW, this is exactly what I expect to happen. The content from the plain text version of the email from BuddyPress into the template provided by, in this case, WP Better Email.

If you’re saying extra CSS is getting involved, I strongly suspect you have some other plugin or theme component adding extra junk.

I’ve just added a fix for emails not sending for certain server configurations. See https://buddypress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-buddypress-2-5-master-list/ and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6947

I think this will help many people, but I would surprised if it fixed everything for everyone. Fingers crossed!

Did you keep a backup copy of your database? If so then you’ll need to use that. Then there’s the files and folders. You should be able to get the 2.4.3 zip from:

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.2.4.3.zip

bbpress.org/support would be a better question as they provide the forum software (not BuddyPress) but generally speaking, it depends how you’re going to automate inviting those 600 people. As long as your invite script doesn’t run out of memory, you shouldn’t have any problem. Certainly, there’s no limit inside bbPress for the number of users it can support.

@dcstyle Not directly for your issue (the success says as far as we can tell, it was delivered to the email server — if you didn’t receive it and if it didn’t get marked as spam, the mail server could have rejected delivery for all kinds of reasons.

We will have a couple of fixes coming into BuddyPress 2.5.1 this week which have a chance of affecting your problem. I think we need to wait for 2.5.1 to come out, then you can update to that, and test again.

@karolbielecki The German language pack has not been updated for BuddyPress 2.5, so that’s expected: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/language-packs

Please start a new support discussion, I don’t think your issues have anything to do with this thread.

Hi, I had the same problem. I checked all the “Repair Tools” boxes, hit go, and now my admin screen is gone. When I disable BuddyPress, my admin screen is fine. When I reactivate it…bye bye. Please advise.

That would be buddypress/members/index-register.php. See the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article for more details.

Ref: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/

Update: With reference to usernames on the wordpress.org forum:

Since [dotorg11555] only a-z and 0-9 are allowed for usernames.

Ref: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1308#comment:13

I’m not sure if this change will extend to the WordPress platform and BuddyPress.

So the wpMandrill plugin re-implements wp_mail() function which means BuddyPress should be passing on the plain text versions of the BuddyPress emails onto Mandrill.

This might help (change ID from 1 in the appropriate places to the ID of your administrator(s). ID’s found in your database ):

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hide-all-admins-from-all-buddypress-activities/

Just adding to master topic tracking this.
I’m seeing similar problems using Mandrill to send email.

Here’s the plugin I’m using: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpmandrill/
I’ve got version 1.33 installed.
Wordpress 4.4.2, Buddypress 2.5, Single Instance wordpress running on nginx

Hi @adjunkten,

read here please and be patient 😉

Activation mails not send after update

I see the same problem.

I am using WP Better Email as html wrapper.

Invitation mails from ‘invite anyone’ are going out, but the emails in the new ‘Email’ section of buddypress are not. (mentions, friending)

Thank you for your work and commitment with Buddypress..

@ingeb1983 @dcstyle @ingeb1983 Hi. If any of you are still using BP 2.5 and still have problems and are NOT using “WP-Mail-SMTP” or “Easy WP SMTP” plugins, maybe could you help me test something?

Download this plugin and activate it (it’s called “BP Email Debug”). Then do something to get a BuddyPress email sent — something that you know was working in previous versions that is broken now.

This new plugin should send an email to the Site Admin email address (wp-admin Settings > General > Email Address) containing information that will help us to better understand the problem.

You only need to get 1 or 2 of these emails; you can de-activate the new plugin afterwards (otherwise you could spam yourself!).

Then please share the content of the email here, or email it to me if you don’t want it public.

Thanks

I don’t know how easy this might be to change at the moment – I think someone would have to write a small plugin – but we are tracking this feature request at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5500 for inclusion in a future BuddyPress release.

This is a known issue. See https://buddypress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-buddypress-2-5-master-list/#post-250544

We’re still trying to figure out the cause.

@neev07 I’m not sure there’s anything we can do to fix this yet, but you might be able to do some research and figure out if there’s any adjustments we can make.

I suspect the content in the email is going to play a big part (e.g. number of links, images or not, and so on).

For example, you could get a bunch of email accounts on services like Gmail, Hotmail, and others, and creating accounts on your site with those email addresses. Do something in BuddyPress that sends exactly the same email to each user, and then you can check all the inboxes and see if ALL services are spamming the emails, or only some.

The results of that, plus some research on Google, might give us some ideas.

@fidelleon Thanks for testing!

Support for “WP-Mail-SMTP” and “Easy WP SMTP” will be fixed in BuddyPress 2.5.1.
See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6945 for tech details.

And keep an eye on https://buddypress.org/support/topic/read-this-first-buddypress-2-5-master-list/.

Thanks everyone for reporting these issues.

Support for “WP-Mail-SMTP” and “Easy WP SMTP” will be fixed in BuddyPress 2.5.1.
See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6945 for tech details.

Note that filters like wp_mail_from will continue to not be supported. See previous posts for how to implement the change in new versions of BuddyPRess.