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I also want to thank ruthlessbookie. That plugin finally did the trick. This problem was driving me nuts.

mmcomber I feel the same way, up until about 2 minutes ago I was going nuts, having spent so much time on this I am eternally grateful to ruthlessbookie as everything works fine.

I am also with Bluehost…was convinced they weren’t the problem and now I am not so sure

I had this same problem on one of my Bluehost domains. However, I was a little disturbed because I had 2 other Bluehost domains with BP that worked perfectly fine. In fact, one WPMU and one WP install as well. However, the emails wouldn’t deliver. I almost used the mail from plugin, but decided to redirect the MX record for my “broken” domain first.

So, I redirected the MX (mail record) from Bluehost’s crappy email service to Google Apps free (and fantastic) email service. Once I finished redirecting the MX record from Bluehost to Google Apps I tried the registration again on BP and the email went through with no problems.

Just thought I’d offer another solution for those on Bluehost.

Now I’m interested to see if the single WP install with BP will be a resource hog or if it’s just the WPMU that was/is the resource hog on a shared host like Bluehost.

I “had” the same problem, and mail from may have solved but what I think was really going on is the mail was being sent from “noreply@websitename dot com” Most reputable hosts don’t allow mail to be sent from an account that does not exist. Once I created the account noreply everything worked as it should.

The new reg’s probably worked on the clean basic installs because the server could tell the email wasn’t be relayed, (the server saw it was coming from WP) once you install BP the host didn’t recognize who the mail was coming from.

My problem with the activation e-mail is that when you click on the link in the e-mail it goes to google page not found listing the URL including the additional code .. however I found that by getting people to copy and paste it into their browser it did work .. not ure what is causing this problem. If it works in the browser why is it not working in the e-mail?

@rossagrant
Did you try my solution on Bluehost where you redirect the MX Record to a Google Apps account: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/email-notification-not-working/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-50751 That fixed it on Bluehost for me.

The “Mail From” plugin does indeed work. In the Dashboard I had to go to the Settings menu, in there was listed the “Mail From” plugin. The sender email was a nonexistent account, which was the problem. I changed it to an existing account. I just created a new user account in the website, and the activation email was sent out, immediately. And it worked, too.

Problem solved.

‘Mail from’ plugin does seem to work…at least for single registrations. Not tested ning user importer on larger numbers.

Thank you so much! I knew something would help… the mailto add on was perfect!

I have a problem with the mail-from plugin- it fixed the email confirmation problem but now whenever someone sends a Private Message it comes “from” the address set by the mail-from (which in our case is my email address- now I am getting all kinds of replies to people’s private messages because they hit Reply without noticing where it was going- this would not happen before because it came from no-reply @domainname.com

I have read through these and mail form plugin doesn’t work for me. I have multiple blogs using Godaddy hosting and all work except for http://naturesorganicmarket.com/organicblog

does anyone know how to fix without the plugin

also, is there a way to just take the confirmation email away