You see, I have no SMTP server (or what ever is required to email the password), so the registration email will not send. This is a problem because then no one can register (and get their password)

In bix I just printed the password (directly from the function that sends the password) to the top of the registration page (after submitting the details). I have not since been able to do this in desmond, and thus can only add users by the admin-add-user plugin.

Can anyone help me?

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 11 months ago]

This thread is related:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/82?replies=8#post-349

Looks like 3 days ago member:pravin was trying to see if this would work with .81. Maybe you can post in that thread or contact that member?

[@master5o1 Participant 17 years, 11 months ago]

i don’t quite get what the ‘fix’ in that thread does.

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 11 months ago]

That fix removes the function that emails the username and password, and displays it on screen instead. If you look at the patches, the lines with a – in front are removed, and the lines with the + are added.

[@master5o1 Participant 17 years, 11 months ago]

Argh! Ok, I tried it but on the first one (bb-includes/registration_functions.php) Gedit could not find the

bb_send_pass( $user_id, $password );

phrase so I could not change it to

#bb_send_pass( $user_id, $password );

…all other things worked fine in what was found…

[@master5o1 Participant 17 years, 11 months ago]

ok…i have kinda worked out my own fix that’s a lot messier than pravins…just printing from the send mail function.

The password works and yeah…

I have the password printed at the top of the page but that’s ok..

[@buchin Member 17 years ago]

#master501 I’ll waiting for your fix. I had the sme problem.

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years ago]

This thread is pretty old. I doubt master501 is coming back around. Maybe you should start a new thread and ask for help there.

[@_ck_ Participant 17 years ago]

http://pravin.insanitybegins.com/articles/running-bbpress-on-sourceforge

I also believe there is code on the WordPress side that uses 3rd party mailers like gmail or yahoo to send passwords. This could be easily adapted to bbPress as a plugin.

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 11 months ago]

Here is the WordPress plugin:

http://www.shiftthis.net/wordpress-swift-smtp-plugin/

[@howtogeek Member 16 years, 11 months ago]

@chrishajer

Thanks for that… I’ve been meaning to look that up, but looks like you did it for me

[@howtogeek Member 16 years, 11 months ago]

That plugin didn’t work quite right for me, but I was able to hack together my own hard-coded version for both bbpress and wordpress.

Thanks!

[@kids-toys Member 15 years, 7 months ago]

Any progress here?