Manual:$wgEnableEmail

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

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

If sending email on the server doesn't work, check the Troubleshooting instructions.

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.

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


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


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

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



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