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


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

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;