[Mediawiki-l] How to require email authentication when creating accounts? And get email working?

[Andrew Lowe]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org 
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ken McDonald
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 June 2006 5:03 AM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] How to require email authentication 
> when creating accounts? And get email working?
> 
> I would like MW to require an email address from account 
> creators, via which it sends them asking for an 
> authentication reply before the account is created. I've been 
> able to figure out how to require email authentication before 
> edits are allowed, but I'd really like this to be required at 
> account creation, and I haven't figured that out yet.
> 
> More importantly :-), I don't actually have outgoing email 
> working. This seems to require Apache configuration, at which 
> I am woefully inadequate. If someone could give me pointers 
> or a link to an appropriate web page, I'd appreciate it, 
> other wise, I'll muddle through somehow :-)
[snip]

Ken,
	There has just been a bit of a discussion on this between myself
and Simon Renshaw. Follow this link, and then the subsequent
messages,and see if it gives you any help.

http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2006-May/012463.html

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	Regards,
		Andrew Lowe