Talk:Setup email

Bid for working mail

• login instructions here

• please give me a bid for getting email to work on wikiexpert.com just as it did on div0.com (phalseid)

this Div0 article works, whereas this Wikiexpert article does not. (there is link in the toolbox to the left to send any article to an email address)

The article re email problems is Setup email. It doesn't need anything fancy, it just needs to be able to send email - usually our Debian installs come with exim4 which works fine, but it somehow broke on the wikiexpert server, we couldn't fix it, tried changing to postfix but no go, now it's back to exim4, but won't work. It means that mail can't be sent from PHP/MediaWiki so we can't send articles to maillist, or notify of talk page changes etc --Nad 20:30, 29 Jan 2007 (NZST)

Email-article.php, Email-text.php we use this as a data event.

• the mail server is installed but not configured correctly such that:
  • PHP's mail() function isn't sending mail
  • others?

Nothing else needed, php's mail() is most important so the wiki can send mails

• maybe xmlwiki has some coding that needs to happen. Something about headers
• perhaps DNS/ MX record ... something
• From what I see, mail doesn't need to be incoming, just outgoing, and that postfix is the preferred mail server.

exim4 is preferred as that's what's installed on Debian by default, postfix was only tried after exim4 broke. --Nad 21:27, 29 Jan 2007 (NZST)

no need for incoming, just outgoing is important --Nad 21:27, 29 Jan 2007 (NZST)

___Epte's bid for mailer configuration___

$100, available within a day or two

Requirements

• email (exim4 preferred by client, postfix 2nd choice) configuration to send mail, not receiving

Actually if you prefer a different mail server, use what you like - whatever gets php's mail() working again --Nad 23:59, 29 Jan 2007 (NZST)

After next server rebuild we would be back on exim4 again, but would prefer to avoid a server rebuild just to get mail going --Nad 23:59, 29 Jan 2007 (NZST)

In which case, you would just copy the relevant conf files from the old server to the new one, whether it be exim4 or postfix, yes? Epte 00:15, 30 Jan 2007 (NZST)

A server rebuild would nuke the whole OS and put it back to a working state, but would take a few hours work. --Nad 00:56, 30 Jan 2007 (NZST)

OR

• determine that mail is not the problem

Assumptions (if not present, may cost extra)

• If a correctly configured mailer were present and running, a sent email would reach its destination (e.g. no firewall, DNS resolution, PHP, or XMLWiki problems)
• I'm dealing with stock exim4 and postfix configurations

Acceptance Tests

• when TESTSITE works, the project is done

Definitions

• TESTSITE: http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/wiki/index.php?title=Debian-lan-boot-dhcpd.conf_example&xpath:/properties:data=email-article.php

Questions

• Which is preferred (if any): exim4 monolithic config, or exim4 conf.d config?

Don't mind, there'll be no config done to it again once working --Nad 23:57, 29 Jan 2007 (NZST)

• Has there been any customizations to either?

We usually just leave it exactly as the default install with no changes as our only use for it is php's mail() --Nad 23:57, 29 Jan 2007 (NZST)