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Seungwon Yang

10 Aug 2007 10 Aug '07

4:24 p.m.

Hi, I googled and read threads about the email problems in MW, but couldn't find the exact answer. The problems are 1) email confirmation doesn't work. It just doesn't send email to the registered user. 2) cannot receive the forgotten password by email. I'm using, --------------------- MW version 1.7.1 PHP: 5.0.4 (apache2handler) MySQL: 4.1.11 Fedora 4 --------------------- Also, I would like to modify MW so that only the admin can create the users. Without email working, it won't be possible since the password will be emailed to the created user. I'm expecting to create around 450 users soon. I would very much appreciate your help. Thank you, Regards, Seungwon Yang P.S. If this question has already been answered, would you point me to the right direction?

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Steve Sanbeg

13 Aug 13 Aug

8:57 p.m.

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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:24:59 -0400, Seungwon Yang wrote:

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Seungwon Yang

15 Aug 15 Aug

10:51 p.m.

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Dear Steve Sanbeg, Thank you for your reply. When will your diagnostics be released? I need to configure the email function of MW in about a week. Is there any way that I can check whether mail() in PHP works and correct it if it doesn't work? Many people (we expect several hundred) will visit our MW for some evaluation task so, I need to fix the problem ASAP. I look forward to your advices. Thank you very much, Sincerely, Seungwon Yang Digital Library Research Lab Virginia Tech On 8/13/07, Steve Sanbeg < ssanbeg(a)ask.com> wrote:

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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:24:59 -0400, Seungwon Yang wrote:

Hi, I googled and read threads about the email problems in MW, but couldn't

find

the exact answer. The problems are 1) email confirmation doesn't

work. It

just doesn't send email to the registered user. 2) cannot receive the forgotten password by email. I'm using,

By default, it just calls PHP's built in mail() function, so if your machine and PHP are configured properly, it should work fine. I recently added some diagnostics, so now if there is a problem, it will display an error message, but that hasn't been released yet, so in the meantime it will say the email was sent, even if it wasn't. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Thomas Dalton

11:31 p.m.

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Is there any way that I can check whether mail() in PHP works and correct it if it doesn't work?

Write a quick php script to send yourself an email? If the email arrives, mail() is working, if it doesn't, it's not.

Platonides

16 Aug 16 Aug

1:08 p.m.

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Thomas Dalton wrote:

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Is there any way that I can check whether mail() in PHP works and correct it if it doesn't work?

Write a quick php script to send yourself an email? If the email arrives, mail() is working, if it doesn't, it's not.

Also try it with an account outside your company (send mail not local)

Seungwon Yang

17 Aug 17 Aug

3:10 a.m.

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mail() didn't work when I tested it with a small php script. Finally, the two steps below made my MW work :-) -------------------------------------------- 1. Got a help from http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-14639.html [root@xxx public_html]# chmod g+s /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail [root@xxx public_html]# ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail -r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 774264 May 6 2005 /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail 2. In the server, /var/spool/clientmqueue was originally owned by root. changed owner so that sendmail can have access to /var/spool/clientmqueue [root@xxx public_html]# chown smmsp:smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue/ [root@xxx public_html]# ls -al /var/spool/clientmqueue/ total 8 drwxrwx-w- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Aug 16 22:13 . ------------------------------------------- I appreciate you all who gave me advices and comments, Regards, Seungwon Yang On 8/16/07, Platonides < Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Thomas Dalton wrote:

> Is there any way > that I can check whether mail() in PHP works and correct it if it

doesn't

work?

Write a quick php script to send yourself an email? If the email arrives, mail() is working, if it doesn't, it's not.

Also try it with an account outside your company (send mail not local) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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