Is email authentication enabled, and if so, is the user authenticated? Rob Church On 31/12/05, Claus Malter <lists(a)sprayen.de> wrote:

Not some stupid bulk mail filter interfering, right? When you say you're changing the email address of the admin user, you mean in their preferences? Does this email match the sender of the email as it appears in other users' inboxes, and if so - is your mail software configured to treat that as junk? Some are. Rob Church On 31/12/05, Claus Malter <lists(a)sprayen.de> wrote:

I had the same problem using * Mediawiki 1.5.2 * PHP 5.0.5 * My SQL 5.0.15 on Windows XP SP-2. I could see that "my watch list" is showing correctly as is the "recent changes" but no sign of the e-mail (all the others are fine though). I set up dumpster (http://quintanasoft.com/dumbster/) to see what exactly was coming out. Problem in my case came down to UserMailer.php with the line $adminAddress = 'WikiAdmin <' . $wgEmergencyContact . '>'; Dumpster seemed happy with this but my normal SMTP server didn't like it giving me a "501 5.5.4 Invalid Address" Changed it to $adminAddress = $wgEmergencyContact; and problem gone. Hope this is of some use to you.