FYI – Never resolved it. Moved on with life. 🙁
As strange as it sounds, Registration emails only fail when the site is set to a different language. I can switch the language back and forth and get those emails to work/fail.
Will take this opportunity to try putting WP in debug mode and learn how that stuff works.
Just had a very long talk with Godaddy. Registration emails are simply not being generated. Other emails work. Registration emails do not. May have to re-install WordPress.
1. I’ve confirmed this is a wider issue with ALL wordpress registrations. It is not a BBpress issue.
IF SOMEONE ELSE is having trouble with registration emails, you should test general WordPress user registrations:
– make sure “Anyone can register” is checked in Settings/General
– go to yourwebsite.com/wp-admin
– click register
– see if you get the registration email.
2. There’s a discussion from three months ago (~October 2016) about Godaddy blocking WordPress registration emails b/c they think they are spam. https://wordpress.org/support/topic/godaddy-internet-community-ib212-filtering-wordpress-registration-emails-as-spam/
3. There’s a nifty plug-in to check email from your site called “Check Email”. I’m able to get emails sent from this plug in. So it seems likely that I may also be a victim of registration emails being blocked as spam.
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I will post more results as I get them.
Thank you, robin. I’ll post results here.
