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Allow specyfing custom email sender
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Author: avbidder

Description:
Hi,

By default, Mediawiki sends email (tested: email address verification mails, watched page changes) with an envelope from address of the user name the webserer runs as (often www-data@<hostname>.)

There are various reasons why this should be something different, not least of all sender address verification. (It is not always useful / sensible to make the Wiki server accept email from the outside, and also the wiki server often should not have the organisation's domain name as its official mail name.)

So, please,

  • either allow mediawiki to just use whatever is used for the From: header as envelope, too
  • or to specify a hard-coded envelope sender address.

Currently, both would be ok for my usecase, but other applications might of course vary.

If the feature exists, it should be documented ... I couldn't find it, and the folks in MediaWiki-General apparently didn't know it either...

Thanks

  • vbi

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
OS: Linux

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Reference
bz23838

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:09 PM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Email.
bzimport set Reference to bz23838.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

See $wgPasswordSender/$wgEmergencyContact. Resolving WORKSFORME.

avbidder wrote:

$wgPasswordSender/$wgEmergencyContact set the "From:" header of the email, not the envelope sender.

This bug looks related to bug 6147 - maybe it's even a duplicate...

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6147 ***