Hi All,
I've got MediaWiki running and online but am not getting any emails when pages are modified. I have opted to watch the pages so its not a basic error like that. ANy suggestions for things to check would be appreciated.
Cheers
John
John Bidder (home-office) wrote:
I've got MediaWiki running and online but am not getting any emails when pages are modified. I have opted to watch the pages so its not a basic error like that. ANy suggestions for things to check would be appreciated.
I'll start with the obvious questions:
1) Are you running MediaWiki 1.5 or later? 1.4 and earlier do not include this feature.
2) Have you enabled this feature? It's not on otherwise.
3) Have you set the email notification options on your user account? Otherwise you'll get no notifications.
4) Have you entered an email address on the account? Otherwise you'll get no notifications.
5) If email address confirmation is on, have you confirmed the address? (See preferences.) Otherwise you'll get no notifications.
6) Is someone _else_ editing the pages? You get no notifications on your own edits.
7) Is your mail server set up correctly? Is PHP set up to send mail correctly? Have you checked the logs? Have you checked for spam blocking or other problems?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Use PostFix instead of SendMail - it's a no-brainer to config postfix, but a real pain to get sendmail working... imho. Took me days to get sendmail to work. For postfix (when I moved my hosted wikis to a new box), I just turned it on.
- MHart
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bidder (home-office)" john@highlanddrive.wanadoo.co.uk To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:41 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] No Email Notifications
Hi All,
I've got MediaWiki running and online but am not getting any emails when pages are modified. I have opted to watch the pages so its not a basic error like that. ANy suggestions for things to check would be appreciated.
Cheers
John
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