Problems with wikimedia mailing users - Wikitech-l

16 Jun 2006

Hi all, just wanted to let everybody know... wikimedia is fast becoming
a part of the Engineering change control and Documentation process at
Bruce Power(www.brucepower.com) a nuclear utility in SouthWestern
Ontario. 

So I've got a small problem with my installation.  It won't email users
who have properly configured email addresses in their preferences.  The
authenticate email option is off in localsettings.php. 

I go the the 'recent changes' page... 

I go to 'talk' to one of the users and the 'E-mail this user' option
comes up

I click on 'email this user' and get an email form... with the
appropriate users... 

I click send and get the message that the email has been sent...

But no email ever arrives at the recipient's inbox.

Similarly all email notifications of page edits and such do not work.

To put this in context I ran the following from the command line using
php... 

<?php
// The message
$message = "Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3";
// In case any of our lines are larger than 70 characters, we should use
wordwrap()
$message = wordwrap($message, 70);
// Send
mail(&#39;myaddress(a)myplace.com&#39;com', 'My Subject', $message);
?> 

And I received the expected results... so the php back-end to this seems
to be working fine. 

Any hints tips or tricks to get the email notification working?

Nick
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