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Hello, if emails are being sent (you’re receiving them at a Yahoo address), then my first guess would be that gmail is treating the mails as spam. Look in your spam folder to see if they’re there.

There are a number of ways to improve deliverability, but that’s beyond the scope of BuddyPress. You might read up on the topic at SparkPost or one of the other bulk email providers.

Hi Shawn. Short of debugging the outgoing mailbox on your server to verify that the email is actually sent, and then monitoring that inbox for any bounce notifications, no, I don’t have any answers. I think I recall seeing Microsoft’s email services blocking the user registration email because it thinks it’s spam (or a bad link).

You could try, as a test, totally replacing all the words and links (using the BP email editor) in the registration email, and seeing if that gets delivered. I suspect it’s being blocked because of the activation link.

The closest thing to moderation I have found is also the plugin you mentioned. But like BuddyPress it is lacking crucial moderation features and doesn’t have updates/support also as you mentioned. I have been wanting a BuddyPress moderation feature similar to WP Core forever…approve/unapproved/pending/spammed activity would be ideal. Integrated with WPCore comment status would be grand. I’d pay for a good moderation plugin. I don’t feel like BuddyPress truly integrates well when activity/comments don’t work well together. In fact, we have avoided full use of BuddyPress for this reason. I suppose this is more of an opinion post and hope some angel comes up with a solution on your problem and my similar problem.

1. I think this is already possible by default see screenshot

2. that is also possible, use bbPress Notify (No-Spam)

@phiggins25 inside BuddyPress setting, you have options to set activities marked as spam via Akismet. It might be possible those users have suspicious IP, or their email id is already marked as spammers. Try to disable it.

1. is PHP GD activated? being installed is not the same as activated.
2. are u using a cloud protection? ur IP might have been flagged as spam so it will not work well with ur site if you are using suspicious IP. This also happens if you are using Tor browser or something similar.

Hi @aubreyw – The email should show up immediately. If it’s not, the places you should check are:

1. Is any email being sent from your server? For example, do BP emails (like private message notifications) show up? How about other WP notifications, like a password reset?

2. Check your spam folders (which it sounds like you’ve already done)

It’s possible to manually trigger the activation of a changed email address, but it sounds like the more fundamental problem here is that emails aren’t working properly, so it seems better to try to address that problem first.

Exact location of this depends on your theme, of course, so this is based on themes that are using BP Legacy.

When a group admin views the single forum post, at the top of the post you should see the date on the left and then options at the right: CLOSE | STICK | MERGE | BIN | SPAM | REPLY – just click on STICK.

This will stick it to the top of the group’s forum.

Hope that helps

This is probably a server configuration problem. This simple plugin can help you figure out if your WP installation can send emails:

Check Email

Alternatively, the emails may be being sent, but ending up in your users’ spam folders.

Hi Ozy,

I’m sorry to hear about the user registration spam…that’s a pain.

Just a thought…but if you have used 5 major plugins to stop spam, you might want to look at any other plugins that might be interacting/conflicting and disabling the anti-spam capability. For example, one we ran into that disables anti-spam is “New User Approve”…are you using that by chance? (There are some others that accidentally do the same thing.) Or do you have any other plugins that interact with the registration process? If so, try disabling them.

If you haven’t yet, you may want to try installing WP-SpamShield…it’s got very robust registration anti-spam. If you still have any issues after that, you can submit a support request and we’ll be happy to help you troubleshoot the issue and figure it out.

– Scott

The problem you’re having is really common, not related to any specific code or plugin, and it affects pretty much all WordPress emails (contact form emails, notices, etc) that are sent from a web server instead of through SMTP. (SMTP is what your email programs use.) You never know when a site will start having this problem, so it can appear random, or it can seem connected to a plugin, etc. (It hardly ever is.)

Over the past few years sending mail from a web server has become more unreliable due to the various improvements in fighting email spam: SPF/DKIM/DMARC etc. Using SMTP is the only reliable way to get emails to arrive at their destination (unless you really have your site’s email configuration dialed in).

I could get into all the technical issues/reasons, I’ll spare you. 🙂

Short answer:

• Use an SMTP plugin.
• Create an email account that is only used for sending emails from your site. (Gmail account is fine.)
• Do a search in the WordPress.org plugin directory for “SMTP”, and pick one of those plugins: Easy WP SMTP for example.

Once you get those setup, you should be good to go.