i just installed a vanilla 0.9.2 and i have the following check in the forum preferences:
Receive email notifications when new users apply for membership
However, I am not receiving any email notifications when a new user signs up. I checked if sendmail is installed on the server. Everything is installed correctly.
In fact, when I go through the 'forgot password' form, i receive an email notification immediately.
Has anyone encountered this? or have any fix to this?
I have a new member role set as 'Applicant', and membership approval role as 'Member'.
When you mean auto approve, do you mean both the new member role and membership approval role is set as 'Member'? If so, then I do not have it set like that.
There is a possibility that your server isn't set up to send mail properly. I purposefully made it so that the application form doesn't throw a fatal error when people try to apply - you don't want to scare away new users. One way to test if your mail server is working properly is to change someone's role. If there are problems it should throw a fatal error for you when it fails to send the mail (being an admin, I figured that would be a good time to show you the error).
First of all, make sure that your administrative role has Notify by email of new applicants checked. Then go to your accoung > forum preferences and make sure that Receive email notifications when new users apply for membership is also checked.
is there no way to get it to send an email even if it is on auto approve. i want to send the user the screen name and password as a common sign up email.
Well, you don't have to learn to code PHP (though that helps, of course). You can always ask and see if anyone on here who *can* code php wants that extension as well - You never know who might pick it up and make it.