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Thanks @djpaul !

Evil people do suck! But I think I see where you’re coming from: The unsubscribe fixture is more of an anti-spamming measure?

I did try navigating the Trac system to further the discussion but came into a few hangups relating to a “TICKET_CREATE privileges are required…” error. But I’ll keep on this topic because I think it’s an important one, especially with the quantity of emails BP outputs and dependency we have on them for notifications.

With the release of 2.6, will the Unsubscribe link automatically disable all BP notifications when clicked or just the notification related to that email (i.e. All Activity, Messages, Friends Notifications or just the single related notification) or something different (i.e. option landing page)?

@djpaul you’re right that there’s no point sending emails to spammers, and I’m not concerned about them.

I use this feature as a tool to manage non-splogger members of the community. For that purpose, I also have another suggestion:

a) If a member can be sent an email X number of days after registration (one-time or periodically). Or,

b) If an email can be sent only after a member has been inactive for X number of days.

These steps can also be used to honor/reward the active/regular members of the community.

I wonder if such cases/instances can be tracked and any email situations be created for them.

Thanks.

Thanks for response Shane. I did see that post, but even with button removed it still allows a user to compose a message and send to someone who isn’t a friend, hence why i was still searching.

I have already introduced a text limit on the compose field to discourage spamming, but it is only Javascript. So with Javascript turned off it is still possible to send big messages. Looking for the PHP validation database solution.

Guess I’ll weigh up the value of PM’s on my site (not live atm) against the possible annoyance of spam to users. Better to introduce PMs at a later date rather than have it initially, find a problem with spam annoying people in the community and then having to remove the feature.

Also, I’m trying to change my profile email but it is giving me this error:

That email address is already taken.
No changes were made to your account.

I think I may have multiple accounts here. Could I merge the two and update the email on this account? I’m not getting the responses in my current email account which is gmail. The hotmail account is mostly a spam account now.

thanks for the reply its a themeforest theme called vivacity and here are the plugins i have installed:

Akismet
Version 3.1.8 | By Automattic | View details

Audio player
Version 2.0.4.1 | By Martin Laine | Visit plugin site

Auto Post Thumbnail
Version 3.3.4 | By Aditya Mooley , Tarique Sani | View details

BuddyPress
Version 2.5.1 | By The BuddyPress Community | View details

CloudFlare
Version 1.3.20 | By Ian Pye, Jerome Chen, James Greene, Simon Moore, David Fritsch, John Wineman

Dashboard Widget Remover
Version 1.0 | By Zihad Tarafdar | View details

Disable wp new user notification
Version 0.100323 | By Corey Salzano | View details

Google Analytics by Yoast
Version 5.4.6 | By Team Yoast | View details

LayerSlider WP
Deactivate | Edit
Version 5.6.2 | By Kreatura Media | Visit plugin site

Log Report Plugin
Keeps Stop Spammer logs in CSV file
Version 1.0 | By Keith P. Graham | Visit plugin site

Mail From
Version 1.0.1 | By Andrew Hamilton | View details

Select SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam
Version 2.7.7.7 | By Mike Challis | View details

Stop Spammers Spam Control
Version 6.15 | By Keith P. Graham | View details

Vivacity Plugin
Version 1.2 | By GhostPool

WP Maintenance Mode
Version 2.0.3 | By Designmodo | View details

WP Super Cache
Version 1.4.8 | By Automattic | View details

WP Widget Cache
Version 0.26 | By Andrew Zhang | Visit plugin site

WPBakery Visual Composer
Version 4.9 | By Michael M – WPBakery.com | Visit plugin site

Yoast SEO

the link is
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-messages-spam-blocker/

Solution:

There is an action to hook to inside bp_core_activate_signup() that fires right after activating the account ( user clicked the link in the email ), so when the user hits /activate this will fire and reset the user_status to 3 ( 1 is spammer I guess ). Now to figure out the rest…

Here is the code ( the second function disallows the user from logging in with custom message ):

add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'custom_bp_core_activated_user' );
function custom_bp_core_activated_user( $user ) {

	if ( empty( $user ) ) {
		
		return false;
	}

	if ( is_array($user) ) {
		
		$user_id = $user['user_id'];
	}
	else {
		
		$user_id = $user;
	}

	$member_type = bp_get_member_type($user_id);
	
	if ( $member_type == 'member_type_to_manually_activate' ) {
		
		global $wpdb;
		
		$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->users SET user_status = 3 WHERE ID = %d", $user_id ) );
	}
}

add_filter( 'authenticate', 'custom_authenticate', 30 );
function custom_authenticate( $user ) {

	if ( is_wp_error( $user ) || empty( $user ) ) {

		return $user;
	}

	if ( 3 == $user->user_status ) {

		$member_type_name = bp_get_member_type($user->ID);
		$member_type = bp_get_member_type_object($member_type_name);
		
		return new WP_Error( 'invalid_username', __( '<strong>ERROR</strong>: All ' . $member_type->labels['name'] . ' accounts require manual confirmation from an admin. You might be contacted soon to verify your identity. You will recieve an email once your account is approved.', 'buddypress' ) );
	}

	return $user;
}