Wikidot Open Source

Hi! I have recently updated my wikidot to revision 466.
But now the emailing seems to be broken:

A friend tried to create an account.
The verification mail never arrived.
I did an account creation on my own — yes the verificaiton mail does not arrive.
I tried with my existing account a "forgot password" — no mail arrives.

But the logs do not contain any information about the mailing.

How does the Mail Backend work?
Is there and where is the log file for mailing?
How do I test the wikidot mailing?
(My "forgot password" testing method is a little bit unsatisfying)

(The /var/log/mail.* files do not log any activity about the relevant mailings)

Thanks for your help!

Hi! Thx for your replies!

I did upgrade from a working version 277.
(… half a year ago, I already upgraded from an even older version to 277.
The older version required the application of the bin/update-2008-08-19.php script.
But mailing worked with the version 277.)

I always diff my old wikidot.ini and consider new configuration items, migrating my settings.
The current configuration is as follows:

[main]
; the following option determines the master domain for your Wikidot installation
domain = <our domain>
; the name of the Wikidot service
service = inf6 Wikidot

[security]
; string that is used to generate unpredictable hashes for authentication
; YOU MUST CHANGE IT or otherwise, anyone can predict the authentication
; cookies and thus steal any session from your users
secret = <secret string>

; allow users to configure SSL settings for their wikis.
; default: false
ssl = true

upload_separate_domain = false
;domain_upload = wikifiles.<domain>

[db]
; PostgreSQL connection parameters
host = localhost
user = wd
password = <some pwd>
database = wd1

[mail]
; simple mail sending parameters
host = <some intranet host>
port = 25
ssl = false
user = null
password = null
auth = false

[misc]
custom_domains = false

Ed, what revision are you using?

THANK YOU, Gabry!!!

In mail section try setting user to moc.niamodruoy|ylper-on#moc.niamodruoy|ylper-on (instead of null)
remove the line with password, ssl and auth

First, I downgraded to your v463 (without changing my config) -> nothing changed.

Then I applied your configuration advice!
The "forgot password" test method proved that it worked.
(Still a kind of stupid test method, ain't!?)

Then I backtracked the configuration changes. The only relevant change was from:

user = null

user = no-reply@yourdomain.com

Your are the best!
(Probably this insight could find its way into the conf/full-example-of-wikidot.ini ?)

A little add-on question:

Remember: The thing was started with:
A friend tried to create an account.
The verification mail never arrived.

So … How can I trigger the resent?
It would seem to me, that the account request would still be in the system?
Or can he just apply for an account again with the same E-Mail?
I could let him try, but probably you have some good advice on this, before we do trial-and-error?

Thx!

You have to use email services that are not free.