Thread:Project:Support desk/Email Confirmation Failure/reply

The documentation you're reading is the documentation for the old extension and not current email support and may be outdated. As it stands email confirmation is controlled by the $wgEmailAuthentication setting in your LocalSettings.php. It applies to all groups.

>But I am asked to click to confirm, and when I do, I get this error message: "Could not send confirmation mail. Check address for invalid characters. Mailer returned: mailer error"

Assuming your mailing address is valid, probably means that something is wrong with mail support in your OS. If using unix check to see if you can send mail using the command line mail program.

>The email address I have entered matches the address in the LocalSettings.php file.

You mean the emergency contact or password sender address? It really doesn't matter if they match...

>MediaWiki 1.17wmf1 (r96617) PHP 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12wm1 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.1.47-facebook-r3550-log

Is that really the version you're using? Or is this a Wikimedia site? Or did you really compile your own php and mysql to use the version strings that Wikimedia uses....