[Mediawiki-l] Watchlist is not notified

[Jack Eapen C]

Hi,

Can anybody please help me with the problem discussed below?

Regards,
 
Jack
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-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jack Eapen
C
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 7:36 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Watchlist is not notified


Hi,

No, there is no wgsmtp setting in my localsettings.php
Does this has to do something with smtp authentication?
Bcs, the linux server on which MW is running don't have a mail server.
Our mail server is Exchange server.

I wrote a small script as follows:
<?php
$email="jackec at suntecgroup.com";
$send=mail($email,"Test","Hello Jack");
if ($send) {
echo "Mail sent";
}
else {
echo "Error";
}
?>

When I call this, I'm getting the message "Mail sent", but no mail
actually reaches-both on Windows and Linux. (I'm not a programmer. So
not sure, whether the script itself is wrong :) ) 

Regards,
 
Jack


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 7:16 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Watchlist is not notified

On 22/06/07, Jack Eapen C <jackec at suntecgroup.com> wrote:
> I'm using MW 193. I first set it up on Winodws and then ported to
Linux. In windows, the users were getting notification emails when a
watching page is changed. But in the production version in linux, that's
not happening. There are some other programmes (like Moodle) in the same
server which has some mail notification features and they are working
correctly. So I believe, the PHP mail is working fine.

Were you previously using PEAR::Mail, which would be the case if
$wgSMTP has been defined in LocalSettings.php? This is a common setup
under Windows, since PHP's mail() function outright sucks on that
platform, but it's not usually needed under Linux, where PHP and the
mail transfer agent work together pretty well.

If $wgSMTP is present in LocalSettings.php, comment it out and see if
it makes a difference.


Rob Church





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