Earlier: "... I have been working on Ubuntu Server LAMP with Postfix to try to get this working (but not successful yet) ... I do plan to document whichever of these I manage to get working first ..."
Peter Blaise responds:
Thanks! I presume most people have automatic success with most parts of their MediaWiki installation, so documenting all the details isn't a high priority. It's only when something doesn't work that we might write down the right and wrong steps as we try to get it working. And then maybe share them.
As I mentioned, I think there are probably 4 types of SMTP, and each requires different setup:
- private: SMTP server directly accessed in the same computer as the MediaWiki installation
- local: SMTP accessed via networking Intranet on another computer in-house
- remote: SMTP via ISP or web host remote access
- public: SMTP via external such as GMail et cetera over the Internet
Your setup looks like it will be in the first category above - you'll have private internal access to the SMTP server inside the same computer as your MediaWiki installation. I might explore that as it would give me ultimate control over SMTP without turning over control of any wiki features to someone else.
I look forward to your link to your working SMTP configuration documentation. Thanks again!
Does anybody have a working SMTP setup that they could share the details of, so those of us with SMTP failure might learn from it? Thank you!
- Peter Blaise