Manual:$wgEnableEmail

Details
Set to true to enable the basic email features: Password reminders, etc.

Please note that some hosting providers (for example Hostmonster) seem to check that the "From:" and "Return-Path:" are genuine, to prevent spammers from using their accounts.

So if you want to enable this feature, you will need to:


 * Find out what the correct sender is, e.g. by visiting a PHP page containing the following code and checking the message you receive

You'll need to change the following variables in  :
 * Let's assume the email at the previous point came through from "myHostmonsterAccountName@myHost.example.com".

If sending email on your server doesn't work, you might want to try man>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgSMTP#Troubleshooting email|this work-around, or just disable this feature, i.e. set   to  .

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.

See   for information on how to configure the sending of email.

Disable email
To disable email, in localsettings.php, change the default:


 * $wgEnableEmail = true;

to


 * $wgEnableEmail = false;