Troubleshooting Steps If Site Members Don’t Receive Welcome Emails
When you create a site, publish it, and then activate it, you expect site members to
receive a welcome email that gives them access to the new site. Take these troubleshooting steps
if site members don’t receive welcome emails.
Required Editions
Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited,
and Developer Editions
Important System-generated emails from an unverified email-sending domain aren’t
delivered, even if the From email address is verified. See Requirements to Send Email from Salesforce.
To ensure that you added the correct user profiles or permission sets, check your site’s
membership. Make sure that the correct users are assigned to the correct member profiles or
assigned the correct permission sets.
Make sure that the Send welcome email option is selected in Workspaces | Administration | Emails.
Check the email deliverability status to ensure that None and System Emails aren’t
selected. In Setup, enter Deliverability in the Quick Find box, and
click Email Deliverability. Ensure that Access level isn’t set
to None or System Emails.
Check email logs to ensure that the emails were sent. In Setup, enter Email Log
Files in the Quick Find box, and click Email Log Files.
Click Request an Email Log, and enter the time period to check. After
you receive the email log, check to see if emails were sent from Salesforce to your
members.
Check the spam folder to ensure that emails aren’t marked as spam.
Use a verified email address.
Ensure that the site is activated.
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