Hi,

we just deployed a MediaWiki at The Document Foundation, running with FastCGI. Everything seems to work like a charm, except one issue: I have set

$wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true;

People complain that after they confirmed their account, they need to log out, restart the browser and then wait five minutes until that validation is accepted, otherwise - even after successful validation - they see an error message stating they cannot edit without being validated.

Is there some timeout or maintenance script running only all five minutes that could cause this?

Thanks, Florian