[Mediawiki-l] Email authenication

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the gmail settings are here -
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287

mark

On Nov 20, 2007 1:11 PM, Jim Sutton <jimsuttonuk at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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