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Same issue still here – using WP 3.1.1 and BP 1.2.8. The registration form takes a new user through the whole process, completes and takes to the confirmation page but no email is sent to the new user so that they can “confirm” their account. They appear to have registered but never get the email and they do not show up as a new user on the Admin side. Seems like a serious bug to me- if no new users can register. Also, I have used the suggestion of the “Mail From” plug in but it has NOT fixed the problem.
I hope someone has a solution soon. Thanks.
Julie

Check your mail logs on the server to see if it was actually *sent*. Not being sent and not being received are two different things.

Yes I had the same problem. It appears the activation link is ONLY being sent to people with GoogleMail accounts.

Tyr one of these plugins to change the mail-from address so the users’ email providers will deliver the mail.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=+%27Mail+From%27&sort=

As Andrea_r pointed out earlier Not being sent and not being received are two different things You need to establish which of these two you are actually refering to. How have you tested your email functions? Have you checked through any mailer-daemon returned undeliverable notifications? What sort of accounts do the people have that are not receiving anything, Hotmail or the like? Have you set up PTR RDNS records and SPF records? failing to set these two records will almost certainly cause certain PITA email servers to bounce the email straight out and won’t even pass it as spam.

Ran a quick check and you appear to have no real mailbox/email server as your domain reports no MX records so not sure how people contact you under that domain, you have what looks to me a correct ptr record and it reports a canonical cname record that I’ve not seen appear in the context of a ptr check, there is no record of a SPF entry which isn’t unusual but some email servers will reject based on lack of available SPF record to lookup. It would be worth you checking with whomever set your dns records that all is correct and with your host that RDNS is set up and correct. These aspects can and will cause issues if not correct.

I’m having the same problem as Tonyone, and it goes away when Buddy Press is disabled. The first problem stated in this thread, the forgot password feature is not sending emails, is different than what the “me toos” are describing.

With BuddyPress enabled
A new user who creates an account gets their account notification email
The Fast Secure Contact Form works and sends email
The Email Users plugin works
BUT
The Bulk Password Reset plugin does Not work, neither does the ‘Get New Password’ on wp-login.php. Both of those trigger this error:
The e-mail could not be sent.
Possible reason: your host may have disabled the mail() function…

This may not be a mail problem but a password rest problem pulling the wrong error message out of … someplace

I’m on a Bluehost server, running WP 3.1.3 and BuddyPress 1.2.8

PPS: Prior to installing the Mail From plugin my emails were being sent from noreply@mydomain.org. Wonder if I had created an email account called ‘noreply’ if that also might have solved the problem,.

“Update: Enabling the ‘Mail From’ plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/ solves the problem.

I’m not thoroughly satisfied with this solution because it is too mysterious , but at least it is a solution.”

It’s not mysterious – it;s a symptom of exactly what I described. The hosts on the receiving end are killing the emails that are sent because they were *automated*. Changing the from address so it come from a “legit” email, instead of wordpress@yourdomain, made it so it got delivered.