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The problem is BuddyPress does not uses wp_mail.

The plugin postman-smtp overrides the wp_mail function to send emails, so any emails sent via wp_mail is sent through the smtp settings provided.

BuddyPress uses custom instance of PHP Mailer to send emails and that’s why these settings are not effective. You can force BuddyPress to use wp_mail by putting the following code in your bp-custom.php

add_filter('bp_email_use_wp_mail', '__return_true');

But in that case BuddyPress will only send text emails (Not the rich html emails you might have seen earlier).

Hope that helps.

we do need to send rich HTML emails. Is there a way we can configure BuddyPress’ custom instance of PHP Mailer to use our SMTP server?

I am also looking forward to this option. I am using Gmail SMTP plugin to send email and it is causing to send plain text.

@6logics – Thanks! This is exactly what I needed to effect the use of BuddyPress email templates with Postman SMTP.

It’s a shame the core code has to be modified, but until some sort of filter can be provided (eg, “bp_email_force_use_of_templates”), this seems to be our only recourse. Perhaps something along the lines of:

$must_use_wpmail = apply_filters( 'bp_email_use_wp_mail', $wp_html_emails || ! $is_default_wpmail );

	if ( $must_use_wpmail ) {
		$to = $email->get( 'to' );

		$use_template = $wp_html_emails && 
		return wp_mail(
			array_shift( $to )->get_address(),
			$email->get( 'subject', 'replace-tokens' ),
			apply_filters( 'bp_email_force_use_of_templates', false ) ?
				$email->get_template( 'add-content' ) :
				$email->get( 'content_plaintext', 'replace-tokens' )
		);
	}

Hi everyone. I am doing a site called https://loveplove.com

After having read all forums, what worked for me was using WP Mail SMTP plugin was putting the following code. Please note I am just putting together various codes together from authors in those forums so you find it easily. In your bp-core-functions php file add the following:

add_filter(‘bp_email_use_wp_mail’, ‘__return_true’);

add_filter( ‘wp_mail_content_type’, function( $content_type ) {
$content_type = ‘text/html’;
return $content_type;
} );

$must_use_wpmail = apply_filters( ‘bp_email_use_wp_mail’, $wp_html_emails || ! $is_default_wpmail );

if ( $must_use_wpmail ) {
$to = $email->get( ‘to’ );

return wp_mail(
array_shift( $to )->get_address(),
$email->get( ‘subject’, ‘replace-tokens’ ),
$email->get_template( ‘add-content’ )
);
}

add_filter( ‘wp_mail’, function( $array ) {
// Set conditions here.

$array[‘message’] = ‘Change this’;
return $array;
} );

DELETE THE FOLLOWING:

$must_use_wpmail = apply_filters( ‘bp_email_use_wp_mail’, $wp_html_emails || ! $is_default_wpmail );

if ( $must_use_wpmail ) {
$to = $email->get( ‘to’ );

return wp_mail(
array_shift( $to )->get_address(),
$email->get( ‘subject’, ‘replace-tokens’ ),
$email->get( ‘content_plaintext’, ‘replace-tokens’ )
);
}

LovePlove

Hi everyone,

Thanks for this feed providing a working solution to an issue apparently shared by many.

@BuddyPress-team, do you guys think it would be possible to implement a solution in bp-core similar to what @uscore713 suggested?

I am not yet familiar enough to comprehend the need to work with plain-text emails when a custom smtp provider is defined…

Many thanks,

Phil

Thanks @shanebp, I have done that 😉 !

Thanks @imath,

I was about to share your snippet here!

Works like a charm for me.

Hello, anyone can explain to me more about that discussion, I’m also trying to this but HTML email format not working. it’s mean email > customize page showing HTML email format not send to email.

I’m using this php file (https://gist.github.com/imath/4faef242ae104c65ddb9ec711ea37189) and it host on my wp-content > Plugins folder.