Heiya, I think that the docu to $wgEmailAuthentication was wrong so I changed it [0]. I have a wiki which was switched to  "false" as a setting and I still get notifications since the respective user preference options for email notifications are selected on special page "Preferences". I want to make sure that the docu is correct. Moreover all the related configuration parameters like e.g. $wgEnotifUserTalk state that they are being ignored if the setting to $wgEmailAuthentication is "false". I guess these need to be changed too? Alternatively it may be the case that the selection of a user via special page Preferences for the respective preference options override whatever one set via the respective configuration parameters. This would have to be noted too. I would like to sort this out properly. Thanks for your insights. Cheers, Karsten PS I believe that it makes sense to send notifications to emails if provided even if they were not authenticated in a second step. Probably you would not like to have this on a public wiki with high activity but this is another story. [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual%3A%24wgEmailAuthenticati…