[Mediawiki-l] Email confirmation and email notification ofpassword change don't work.

[Charlie Markwick]

From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Sanbeg
Sent: 13 August 2007 21:58
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Email confirmation and email notification
ofpassword change don't work.

> By default, it just calls PHP's built in mail() function, so if your 
> machine and PHP are configured properly, it should work fine.
> I recently added some diagnostics, so now if there is a problem, it
will
> display an error message, but that hasn't been released yet, so in
> the meantime it will say the email was sent, even if it wasn't.

Thanks for getting back to me. I haven't had any other problems with PHP
mail() function. I wonder what can be happening. What does it use as the
senders address, is this configurable?

Charlie