Manual:$wgEnableEmail

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

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

To enable this email:


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

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 the server doesn't work, try 3>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;