Brion
Thank you for your reply
however, I still find this confusing and hope you will
bear with me
you said in your reply:
Set $wgSMTP, and make sure PEAR::Mail is installed and
in the
include_path.
See the doc comment in DefaultSettings.php.
a) I am using netBSD. In pkgsrc there is a
pear-mail_mime pkg but not a pear-mail pkg. Do you
know if they are the same thing?
b) in the DefaultSettings.php the relevant section is:
/**
* SMTP Mode
* For using a direct (authenticated) SMTP server
connection.
* Default to false or fill an array :
* <code>
* "host" => 'SMTP domain',
* "IDHost" => 'domain for MessageID',
* "port" => "25",
* "auth" => true/false,
* "username" => user,
* "password" => password
* </code>
*
* @global mixed $wgSMTP
*/
$wgSMTP = false;
this is confusing: do I uncomment the array or the
code block, or not? when I uncomment it I get errors
thrown...
Also, it is unclear what value IDHost should have or
represent.
finally, is it correct that username and password are
not in quotes?
Thanks in advance and sorry to be such a pain...
/malcolm
--- Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
malcolm stanley wrote:
In Joomla! I can configure email so it uses my
Yahoo! smtp account for outbound email
That works a treat for authentication and
relieves
me of having to understand sendmail :-)
In Mediawiki the assumption appears to be that
mail is working on the host
server:
I can find very little documentation on the
subject and what documentation there is does not
directly answer my question, which is:
'how do I configure mediawiki to use a third party
smtp mail service for
outbound email?'
Set $wgSMTP, and make sure PEAR::Mail is installed
and in the include_path.
See the doc comment in DefaultSettings.php.
-- brion vibber (brion@
pobox.com)
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