Manual:$wgEnableEmail
| Email settings: $wgEnableEmail | |
|---|---|
| Set to true to enable basic email features. |
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| Introduced in version: | 1.4.0 |
| Removed in version: | Still in use |
| Allowed values: | (boolean) |
| Default value: | true |
| Other settings: Alphabetical | By function | |
Details
[edit]Set to true to enable the basic email features: Password reminders, etc.
See Manual:$wgSMTP for information on how to configure the sending of email.
If sending email on the server doesn't work, check the Troubleshooting instructions.
Local mail transfer agent software
[edit]MediaWiki email is almost certainly not going to work out-of-the-box on Windows servers, and it may require additional configuration on Linux servers. To send mail from your local server, a functional configuration of a message transfer agent (MTA) is required. Common local mail transfer agent software for sending messages on Linux systems are Postfix, Sendmail, or Exim.
Once a local mail transfer agent is installed, you must set the sendmail_path variable in the file php.ini to point to the correct executable file of your mail server software.
See the PHP documentation.
External email providers
[edit]Alternatively you can use $wgSMTP to connect MediaWiki to an external email provider to send mail (for example Google Gmail).
Hosting providers
[edit]Some hosting providers (for example Hostmonster) appear to check that the "From:" and "Return-Path:" are genuine, to prevent spammers from using their accounts.
- Find out what the correct sender is, e.g. by visiting a PHP page containing the following code and checking the email that you receive:
<?php
mail("my.private.address@example.com","My subject","My message body");
?>
- Let's assume the email at the previous point came through from "exampleAccountName@myHost.example.com". Change the following variables in
LocalSettings.php:
$wgEmergencyContact = "exampleAccountName@myHost.example.com";
$wgPasswordSender = "exampleAccountName@myHost.example.com";
Disable email
[edit]To disable email, in LocalSettings.php, change the default:
$wgEnableEmail = true;
to
$wgEnableEmail = false;