So I'm running MediaWiki 1.4.7. My users have been wanting to use the "I forgot my password so email it to me" button when they forget their password... unfortunately, it does not work! No erroring, just a message that claims a message was sent.
Sendmail wasn't even installed on my machine until someone let me know they were trying to use this feature. I promptly installed sendmail, and set about looking for some setting or variable in the php to enable the use of the newly-installed sendmail.
I'm confused. An adventure in searching through meta.wikimedia.org was fruitless.
Thanks for the help!
Andrew Moll
andrew@mac-boy.com wrote:
So I'm running MediaWiki 1.4.7. My users have been wanting to use the "I forgot my password so email it to me" button when they forget their password... unfortunately, it does not work! No erroring, just a message that claims a message was sent.
Sendmail wasn't even installed on my machine until someone let me know they were trying to use this feature. I promptly installed sendmail, and set about looking for some setting or variable in the php to enable the use of the newly-installed sendmail.
I'm confused. An adventure in searching through meta.wikimedia.org was fruitless.
Thanks for the help!
Check www.php.net for documentation, and more importantly the error logs on your server.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Use Postfix instead of Sendmail - MUCH easier to configure. It'll likely work right out of the box. Took me a day to get sendmail working on one machine, and about 10 seconds to get Postfix working on another.
- MHart
----- Original Message ----- From: andrew@mac-boy.com To: mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:17 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] emailing forgotten passwords
So I'm running MediaWiki 1.4.7. My users have been wanting to use the "I forgot my password so email it to me" button when they forget their password... unfortunately, it does not work! No erroring, just a message that claims a message was sent.
Sendmail wasn't even installed on my machine until someone let me know they were trying to use this feature. I promptly installed sendmail, and set about looking for some setting or variable in the php to enable the use of the newly-installed sendmail.
I'm confused. An adventure in searching through meta.wikimedia.org was fruitless.
Thanks for the help!
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