Topic: Mediawiki not sending e-mail

[bloodshoteye]

I have raised a bug against smeserver-mediawiki for this strange install method and encouraged the owner to fix other outstanding bugs as well.

Thanks for that cactus.

I'm going to look at alternative wikis for the time being. I wonder - if others are following this thread, which of the many wikis available install into /opt and are SME friendly?

[cactus]

I'm going to look at alternative wikis for the time being. I wonder - if others are following this thread, which of the many wikis available install into /opt and are SME friendly?

Why are you so keen on installing in /opt?

[bloodshoteye]

Why are you so keen on installing in /opt?

Some time ago I read many a forum post discussing the pros and cons of web apps in ibays vs opt and opt was always said to be the better option - more secure. Also local LAN users can't get at/read/copy files via Samba shares?

[bloodshoteye]

I think I found the solution, which I provide here for others:

Recall I said I'm using PHP5-cgi. After some more Googling I made the following addition in /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/php5/php.ini/80ModuleSettings02mailfunction

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[mail function]
SMTP =  localhost
sendmail_from = me@localhost
sendmail_path = usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
The sendmail_path line is what I added.
Of course one must also do

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# expand-template /etc/php5/php.ini
# service httpd-e-smith restart

Built-in PHP mailer function tested working in TikiWiki (in /opt/wiki) Not tested with Mediawiki in /opt as I gave up on that awhile ago, but likely will also succeed.