Manual talk:$wgSMTP

IDHost causing problems
It appears that the MediaWiki code in includes/UserMailer.php is using the IDHost property to generate the email message id (in email headers).

Please note that IDHost is not a property documented at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.factory.php making it confusing that the code would count on it being present in $wgSMTP.

I recommend that either this documentation makes a special note that IDHost should be set for MediaWiki and is not a documented option for PEAR Mail, or providing an acceptable default such as automatically detecting the domain from other $wgSMTP options or the system hostname.

Usage, this usage needs to be confirmed!
This can be used to setup access to your mail server. Say, when you have trouble sending mails you may get strange messages - like this:


 * Notice of the mail server: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Paris' for '2.0/DST' instead

(sorry for the odd way of formating this, I dont know how to do this right) (Speciel:Confirmemail) Asset

Warning
How strange it is that we need configure this setting in default_setting, not only overwriting it in local_setting!
 * Note: The above is either a misunderstanding or joke. Do not change Default_setting! --G.Hagedorn 17:43, 5 November 2008 (UTC)