[Mediawiki-l] E-Mail Notification and E-Mail-Authentication

[Thomas Gries]

Dear Developers,

I need to clarify some things, because the amount of complaints is going 
into a wrong direction, which does not please me, as I wanted to support 
the MediaWiki project, not to slow it down.

As my two "babies" (see subject) are now merged into the CVS-HEAD 
version (on 18.12.2004) and some people are still complaining this and 
that instead of acknowledging the efforts, I kindly ask those of you 
being interested in my enhancements - which are running quietly and 
stable on my four wikis without a single problem since August 2004:

to consider to visit http://meta.wikipedia.org/Enotif , to try a fresh 
checkout from the CVS HEAD version and to contact me if you have 
problems or to tell me, that and how you like it. There are  
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454 for ENotif and 
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866 for EAuthent , 
however, I prefer direct e-mail contact, because I can answer quicker.

Please be reminded and check first:
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There are two commonly reported pitfalls (not problems): 1. You do 
***not*** get any e-mail notifications for your own changes: you can 
test the e-notification only if you commit page changes as another user 
(e.g. anonymous). 2. You must have ***stored*** an E-mail address - 
obviously - to receive notifications. If also EAuthent was enabled 
during installation, you need to have the address ***authenticated***, 
which status is always shown in your user preferences.

I am pretty convinced that you will like it. If you have concrete 
proposals for ameliorations, please carefully read the existing list on 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Email_notification_to-do_list . This page 
lists not only to-do items, but also the existing user proposals.

Tom
aka Wikinaut