[Mediawiki-l] Email authenication

[Jim Sutton]

Hi

I've only just starting using MediaWiki and I'm a novice. I'm trying
to get my wiki to authenticate email addresses by confirming that an
email address is valid. I've had a look at the MediaWiki FAQs and
browsed the MediaWiki site but can't find what I'm looking for.

I have my MediaWiki installation running on an iMac but don't have a
mail server running on my Mac. So I was wondering whether it's
possible to use a remote mail server. I've seen this function:

$wgSMTP = array(
 'host'     => "localhost",
 'IDHost'   => "domain for MessageID",
 'port'     => 25,
 'auth'     => false,
 'username' => "my_user_name",
 'password' => "my_password"
);

Would this work and could I use say Gmail as a remote mail server for
my wiki? Does anyone know what settings I should enter and where in
the localsettings file I should place this code? I look forward to any
help you can give me. Thanks.

Jim