Hi fellow MediaWiki admins,
I'm having difficulty setting up SMTP email notification under MediaWiki. Does anyone have any leads or links to a checklist, a sequence of criteria for successful MediaWiki SMTP email setup? If I could see a successful MediaWiki SMTP setup, then I could emulate it and troubleshoot my non-successful setups. Even a successful example using Google GMail SMTP, or other external freebie, would at least allow me to confirm if I've got the underpinnings in order.
When I click on a user name from "Special:Listusers", and then click on "E-mail this user", then "Special:Emailuser/(username)" returns: "No send address. You must be logged in and have a valid e-mail address in your preferences to send e-mail to other users." ... but I am logged in, and both the username and my current log-in have legitimate, working email addresses entered into and saved in each of their preferences (unverified, of course)!
I click on "My preferences" ("Special:Preferences") then select "Confirm your e-mail address" ("Special:Confirmemail"), and it then displays: "A confirmation code has already been e-mailed to you; if you recently created your account, you may wish to wait a few minutes for it to arrive before trying to request a new code." ... but of course none has ever been sent. Then I click on "Mail a confirmation code", and it returns a blank screen, and no email ever arrives.
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My background searches:
- I've had no luck finding how to turn on PHP error logging (where I presume the email is handled) and then reading error logs (if any?) so I can see where it's stuck - does anyone have a link to samples of PHP error logging? This may not relate to email.
- I had no luck searching Google or MediaWiki for "gmail smtp in php" or equivalent, plus or minus any of these and related words, so I'm hoping someone here will have a successful sample to share.
I appreciate there are at least 4 types of SMTP, and each requires different setup: - private: SMTP server in the same computer as the MediaWiki installation, directly accessed - local: SMTP accessed via Intranet on another, in-house computer - remote: SMTP via ISP or web host - remote access - public: SMTP via external, such as GMail, et cetera, over the Internet
Have I got those alternatives right? Anyway, even successfully testing with a public SMTP server would help! I can then search through my local settings to make changes, or try to install a private SMTP server if I find no satisfactory alternative. I'd just like to see it work at all, ever, any way, at least once!
Would anyone who's had success with MediaWiki SMTP in any form please cut and paste their successful settings into examples at http://www.mediawiki.org/ in a sample SMTP page - and include a link to it in a response here?
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Here are some sample "LocalSettings.php" elements that may relate, I've played with these using a variety of settings to no avail:
$wgEnableEmail = true; $wgEnableUserEmail = true; $wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['autoconfirmed'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['emailconfirmed'] = true;
$wgSMTP = array( 'host' => "smtp.gmail.com", or "mail.google.com", or ... 'IDHost' => "google.com", or "mail.google.com", or "gmail.com, or commented out ... 'port' => 25, or 465, or commented out ... 'auth' => true, or false, or commented out ... 'username' => "myaccont@gmail.com", 'password' => "********" );
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"Special:Version" returns the following, for your information:
Version - MediaWiki: 1.10.0 - PHP: 5.2.2 (apache2handler) - MySQL: 5.0.41-community-nt
Extensions - Special pages - LastUserLogin (version 1.0.6)
Parser hooks - DynamicPageList2 (version 1.2.1) - Subpage List 2
Extension functions - wfLastUserLogin, wfUpdateUserTouched, wfDynamicPageList3, wfDynamicPageList2 and efSubpageList
Parser extension tags - <dpl>, <section>, <subpages> and <pre>
Parser function hooks - dpl, int, ns, urlencode, lcfirst, ucfirst, lc, uc, localurl, localurle, fullurl, fullurle, formatnum, grammar, plural, numberofpages, numberofusers, numberofarticles, numberoffiles, numberofadmins, numberofedits, language, padleft, padright, anchorencode, special and defaultsort
Hooks - LanguageGetMagic wfDynamicPageList3_Magic - LoadAllMessages wfDynamicPageListSPloadMessages
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... I see on other wikis:
Hooks - PrefsEmailAudit logPrefsEmail (from SpecialPreferences.php, not documented) - UserCanSendEmail wfUserCanSendEmailExt
... but I can't find a reference to see if they matter to my situation or how to engage them anyway!
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Thanks in advance for sharing your successful MediaWiki SMTP setups,
- Peter Blaise