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It’s neither the fault of WordPress, BuddyPress or Welcome Pack that your emails are filtered into spam folders. I suggest changing the content of those emails so that email spam services are less likely to flag the email as spam. There may also be server configuration changes you could make to help.

I have the same issue, except that the confirmation email goes to spam with Welcome Pack plugin activated whereas when its deactivated the activation email does not go to spam…

I really want to use Welcome pack but obviously in this case I need to keep it turned off!

double checked and triple checked, this one is checked.
>> User accounts may be registered.

I don’t want to deal with too many splogs corrupting the database, so I just enabled user accounts.
I used to use the below code in my wp-config to keep people from setting up spammy user accounts, but now that just says page not found.

define( ‘BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG’, ‘customactivation’ );
define( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘customregister’ );

Awesome. Thanks for taking the initiative, @foxly.

I’m hesitant to post my links on this site because of all of the spammers that have been fishing around here lately. But as a QA Engineer, I agree, you have to give as much detail as possible about the bug – even stuff you think is too trivial.

Are you on single site or multisite? How are the members posting to the blog, via backend or a frontend plugin (which one)?

WP/BP version? Is this a new installation? Do you have a membership plugin installed? If so, deactivate it and see if same problem persists.

@Firynze @Witi

Are the emails in the spam or junk directories?

Some hosts need an extra plugin to work with wordpress mail, such as the one suggested on the following page: https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/

I have used https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ which has a useful debugging feature….

We need a Report/Block button and we need it fast… rapido vamos )

Yes… getting messages from miss.afara… Is Akismet used on updates? Or do registered users bypass any filtering?

Yip, getting tired of all the spam!

Me too, I have a lot of Unconfirmed emails pending everyday … 10 to 20 per day !!
Then I need to activate them manually …
Very annoying !

I cannot find any reason WHY those people didnt get the confirmation email in their inbox …
I asked all of them : did you check your spam filter … but this is not the issue.

Don’t know what to do …?
I’m loosing many subscribers because of this.

I must say I’m using WP last version + BP 1.5 + s2Member + BBpress plugin

Any help appreciated.
(I will try the WP-mail plugin to see if it can solve my problem)

IF wordpress isn’t sending any emails (ie they’re not in spam or junk folders) it may need an extra plugin – see https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/
Or try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ to help diagnose where the issue is and add some extra settings to fix it…

buddybar or admin bar?

why not use recaptha for registration?

I’ve decided to manually register users as they sign up. It is the kludgiest of solutions, but I’d rather spend my time registering good folks that hours seeking out and deleting bad.

@fswd
Bad Hammer looks better. I’ll delete the Block by Maths and use that as it gives a list of who is spammer etc and who isn’t. As you say, it’s also been tested.

@fswd
The ‘Block Spam by maths’ seems to be doing the trick in stopping the robot members. I haven’t had any since I activated it last night, I’ve had legitimate members joining which shows it still allows humans to join. But I’m still cautious about widgets that show a ‘not tested’ warning, so I would be very interested in knowing if the one you are testing works out ok.

@paul Gibbs Thanks for reassuring me that I don’t have to keep changing browsers.

I just have to solve the problem of why I can’t have 3 columns back on my site instead of the two, it looks awful. Any suggestion as to where I post a troubleshoot question for this little problem. Take a look and you’ll see what I mean. http://clandestinecakeclub.co.uk/

@Lynn I’m going to quickly check out this spam blocker plugin now:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/ban-hammer/

Will let you know how it goes.