Manual:$wgEnableEmail

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Email settings: $wgEnableEmail
Set to true to enable basic email features.
Introduced in version:1.4.0
Removed in version:still in use
Allowed values:(boolean)
Default value:true

Details[edit]

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

See Manual:$wgSMTP for information on how to configure the sending of email.

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

Local mail transfer agent software[edit]

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. To send mail from your local server, a functional configuration of a message transfer agent (MTA) is required. Common local mail transfer agent software for sending messages on Linux systems are Postfix, Sendmail, or Exim.

Once a local mail transfer agent is installed, you must set the sendmail_path variable in the file php.ini to point to the correct executable file of your mail server software. See the PHP documentation.

External email providers[edit]

Alternatively you can use $wgSMTP to connect MediaWiki to an external email provider to send mail (for example Google Gmail).

Hosting providers[edit]

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:
<?php
mail("my.private.address@example.com","My subject","My message body");
?>
  • Let's assume the email at the previous point came through from "exampleAccountName@myHost.example.com". Change the following variables in LocalSettings.php:
$wgEmergencyContact = "exampleAccountName@myHost.example.com";
$wgPasswordSender   = "exampleAccountName@myHost.example.com";

Disable email[edit]

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

$wgEnableEmail = true;

to

$wgEnableEmail = false;

See also[edit]