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I think the only way to avoid this is to manually moderate new signups using BP Registration Options. At least that’s what I do and I’ve never had a spam group created.

That’s great, well, glad you found the culprit, Askimet should be seamless, only interfering with potential spam.

You can disable activity completely in the Dashboard>>Settings>>BuddyPress page, you can choose to disable this component. However the issue is likely to be down to the plugin that is checking for spam on the activity component of BuddyPress, which plugin is that?

Hi, it looks like the issue is unexpected behavior from Outlook.com:

BuddyPress New User Activation Emails & Resends not working

Ending up in spam is not surprising. Email is complicated, and you can check the web for guides about improving email deliverability from your server. Here’s one:

8 Best Practices To Improve Your Email Deliverability

Did you install any sort of anti-spam plugin? Many of them tend to treat university email addresses as spam as it is a common tactic for email spam?

Also, check with your host to see if they are running something like apache spamassassin and see if that’s preventing you from receiving the spam emails. (while typically its used for inbound emails its always good to see). Otherwise, you can also try using a plugin like.

Easy WP SMTP

And setting it up via SMTP to see if that helps any.

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.