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