[Mediawiki-l] Email authenication

[Ralph Hulslander]

Hi Jim, I am also new to mediawiki. 

I just got the email confirmation working.

I had set the SMPT permissions and SMTP server in all of the logical places
in the mediawiki folder:
Localsettings.php
php.ini 

But it didn't work.
I had to set them in php.ini in my Apache folder (also?).

I am using a remote SMTP server I do not know specifically about gmail.

The email confirmation is rather lame (but works great)as all it does once
the email address is confirmed is allow a user to use the email functions in
mediawiki. 

I was hoping it would have confirmed an actual person to do edits to the
pages. I am still looking for that.

Ralph

-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jim Sutton
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:12 AM
To: mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Email authenication

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

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