On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:17 PM, CS DBA <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All; > > I've installed mediawiki for our company on a Scientific Linux 6.x server. > Mediawiki does not > allow users I create to login and go to a settings page to change their > password. > > The only way users can change passwords is to click the lost password link > and have Mediawiki > email them a new password.
> However, email does not work. I downloaded sendmail but still no luck. > I also tried to send a simple email from the command line via sendmail, > still no luck Downloading isn't enough, you actually ahve to start it. But if you're using SL 6.3, I strongly suspect that you already had Postfix installed and running, and you should rip sendmail right back out and use Postfix (wich is the default now for our favorite upstream vendor). Sendmail is an MTA, a Mail Transfer Agent. If the email got to it, it should show up in /var/log/maillog. > I'm pretty well versed in basic Linux admin tasks but when it comes to > sendmail, mailx, etc > I'm a complete noobie. mailx is an old, somewhat simpler command line client for email. If that's not working, something is wrong. Are you sure you don't have a network firewall in place somewhere that is blocking email from any but designated, active SMTP servers, and machines like yours would be forced to pass their mail first to a "smarthost"? I've done that kind of blocking myself, *precisely* to keep every student and staff and their granny from running public and unmaintained wikis and mailing lists that would be coming from sites inside our network but had nothing to do with the company. > Any help on setting up the mail (and getting it to play nice with mediawiki) > would be much appreciated > > Thanks in advance... > > /Kevin See above. Check /var/spool/mailllog, and see what "/usr/lib/sendmail -bp" says about any outstanding email messages stuck in the queue.
