Registration problems with email

Posted by: @pipetko

You should fix teh registration in this website. It is problematic. The activation e-mail is not comming. I had to issue several times password recover link :) PS Thanks for the osclass tip. It helped

Thanks!

While we had some emails about that (via the contact page), from my logs i see the email IS actually delivered to whatever email is trying to register.

Also i have done several tests myself from various accounts and never had any problem.

Keep in mind that the emails are not realtime but send from a queue, so it can take 3-5 minutes.

https://www.valueweb.gr/forums/off-topic/long-delay-in-emails-notifications/#post-636

@editor I understand but the activation email never came at all. My forgotten password links came in range of up to 10 minutes :) And also if you use loginizer or soem other login form like theme my login it will sen1 better e-maisl with the correct links. The deafult wordpress link for activation or pass recovery does not work correct. In the links there are >< that should not be there .If I copy manually the link without them its working. This is known issues from about 3-4 years still not fixed by WP

10 minutes seems like a very long time, still it may be so.

No we do not use any login or registration plugin. And all activation links seems to work fine for me. Reading them with Gmail or Windows Thunderbird email client. There are some <> but those are linked correctly.

Anyways, thanks for the information.

Cheers!

@editor

If using a queue plugin for email, then Wordpress internal pseudo-cron is used. Wordpress CRON is actually run when a visitor hits your site (visitor can be whatever). Otherwise no cron is executed.

So to make this short, on low traffic sites WP cron can be a bit slow. Can take a long time. Apparently this is happening here. On slow days, email will be delivered maybe after 10 or 20 or 30 minutes. Or sometimes more than that. BUT it WILL be delivered.

What you can change here is to disable internal CRON in the wp config file and add a REAL cron in Cpanel, every 5 minutes.

Let me know if you need any more information on that.

@editor

Using a real external CRON (Cpanel) will also somehow speed your WP installation, since no check for CRON will happen in every hit of your site.

So your pages will be slightly faster.