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Activate user account emails not arriving.

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Hi, When someone registers they get a welcome email but I don't get an Activate user account email. I have tried to find a reason and failed. any suggestions? Thanks, Martin.
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Admin Control Panel > General tab > User registration settings > Account activation
If you want to activate the users set it to By admin
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Hi, That is the setting I have. The welcome email says "Your account is currently inactive and will need to be approved by an administrator before you can log in" but I am not being notified. Perhaps it's my email account but I can't find the cause. Thanks, Martin.
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Check your junk or spam email folder, it may be that your filtering is treating the activation emails as spam.
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Hi, Can't find them there! This is doing my head in. Cheers, Martin.
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OK, The problem is that while my email address in ACP is [email protected], in my admin user details it is an old email address which is no longer working. I can change my user email to a third functioning address and the activate emails will go to that address, but what I want to do is change to [email protected] but I get : "Warning The entered e-mail address is already in use". This makes no sense to me. Does anyone know? Thanks, Martin.
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I was having a problem with my website host, the email they have given me [email protected] always gets delivered to the spam folder of any email, be it yahoo, hotmail, gmail, etc.

So I switched the activation board email to my other host email which is hosting my forums, [email protected] and now users get the email fine

find a way to change ur board email, problem solved
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