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Every time I hear of this I have to say before anything else disable all plugins except for BP then try a test registration/activation. Even If it sends it to a spam folder in your email then you have used a process of elimination to find the culprit. Most of the time if you are getting your test activations in a spam folder on your email then setting up an email on your host from your domain cures the issue. Something like “admin_yourusername@yourdomain.com” in your cpanel webmail or whatever you have usually fixes this. You may also need to change the email in your dashboard/settings/general E-mail Address to reflect the email you created on your host depending on the host and how they handle mail. Hopefully this will help you. “My advise to anyone is after installing any plugin after BP is to do a test registration/activation each time.” That way you don’t have to sort through 20 plugins to find the one that breaks activation. Oh yeah, and if it activates go ahead and log-in with the username and password you created or the test registration/activation member you created will not show up in the members directory.

That is going to be the issue, pass the problem off to them to solve as it’s essentially a domain configuration problem, once they’re aware of the problem they will know how to correct. While you are working with them you might as well ensure they have set a SPF record for the domain and also PTA records both will help ensure mail servers can satisfy there spam checks and verify the domain and the server as being an authorised one to send mail for that domain.

Nice to see that the official Buddypress site is having a huge problem with spam as well. Congrats.

Hi,

It is not exactly the same, but you can use WangGuard and the users can report to the admin the spammer users

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wangguard/home/

Kind regards

Agreed on the matter of adding a plugin to cure the symptoms, it’s not really a solution; sending email is a fiddly business due to a plethora of badly implemented solutions for trying to ID spam mail, but essentially moving email around is not rocket science and ‘sendmail’ or similar apps work quite well to achieve this, generally this sort of issue will be to do with receiving servers not being happy with the mail, either they can’t perform a reverse lookup on the domain or they are trying to check for a SPF record and not finding one. Not sure what to suggest other than that, your site/server is sending emails successfully so I don’t see the point of a further plugin, reviewing any mailer-deamon failure emails if they exist and can be found can help by tracking down any error numbers returned, but logs are really the only means to working out what is happening here.

Is your mail server located elsewhere for that domain? is the box you are running your site on a cpanel or plesk enabled one? i so does that have a mail server running set to your domain, control panels can tend to set up defaults that are not obvious and run services such as email servers that you may not want and that may be trapping your domain mail and returning it to it’s self rather than pushing it on off the box.

And obviously all those accounts have mail boxes and , receive emails to addresses such as joeblogs@example.com?So is your server hosting BP acknowledged as a server allowed to relay mail from itself under that domain, this sounds more like an issue with your mail server and how it’s been configured – too tightly in respect of spam checking? you may want to check your email logs see what has been arriving at your email server and how it’s dealt with it.

Sometimes the email gets stuck in spam or junk filters.

To get email working, some web hosts require an extra wordpress plugin, such as:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp and configure-smtp can send a test email which often provides useful debug information!

This is a frequently discussed issue here and people have found all three different plugins useful – there may be others.

Please check your host’s knowledge base or faq for further information….

Sometimes the email gets stuck in spam or junk filters.

To get email working, some web hosts require an extra wordpress plugin, such as:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp and configure-smtp can send a test email which often provides useful debug information!

This is a frequently discussed issue here and people have found all three different plugins useful – there may be others.

Please check your host’s knowledge base or faq for further information….

BuddyPress is trying to be the best social platform available. We’re not about building databases of spammers.

Be assured, we feel your pain and have given/continue to give considerable thought to managing spam content in BuddyPress.

Sometimes the email gets stuck in spam or junk filters.

To get email working, some web hosts require an extra wordpress plugin, such as:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp and configure-smtp can send a test email which often provides useful debug information!

This is a frequently discussed issue here and people have found all three different plugins useful – there may be others.

Please check your host’s knowledge base or faq for further information….

Akismet works on a string of text which it decides if it’s spam or not. I’m not sure how to do that meaningfully from a registration form.

It’s not an easy problem. If you’ve got any good ideas, then we’re listening.

Some times the email gets stuck in spam or junk filters.

To get email working, some web hosts require an extra wordpress plugin, such as:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/configure-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp and configure-smtp can send a test email which displays, often useful, debug information!

This is a frequently discussed issue here and people have found all three different plugins useful – there may be others.

Please check your host’s knowledge base or faq for further information….

Sometimes emails end up in spam or junk directories/folders….

Some web-hosting providers might require you to install a wordpress plugin such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ and/or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp also has a useful debug feature and more settings…

@jmk10276 in buddypress 1.6 their will be Akismet integration built into buddypress, which will help kill the activity spam. https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/

Their isn’t really any spam protection plugins for buddypress available right now though,
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-labs/ is the plugin that the 1.6 core akismet-intergration is based on, but as the plugin page states “all experiments are in beta, and come with no guarantees.”

Another option might be to use a captcha plugin to kill them at the registration page – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/

I use the oddly-named but highly effective Wangguard plugin.

You can check your existing list and purge sploggers who have signed up, and tighten up the registration system to prevent them getting accounts in the first place:

http://wangguard.com/

Are they in a spam or junk folder?

Have you tried installing https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ then use it to send a debug email? It can show where an email gets stuck and error codes that can be googled….

Sometimes emails end up filed as spam or junk….

Some web-hosting providers might need you to install a wordpress plugin such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ and/or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp also has a useful debug feature and more settings…

Sometimes emails end up filed as spam or junk….

Some web-hosting providers might need you to install a wordpress plugin such as https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ and/or https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

wp-mail-smtp also has a useful debug feature and more settings…