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==Can't Send Out Confirmation E-mails (using SMTP)==
(confirmed on Slackware 10.2 & Mediawiki 1.7.x) 
To use SMTP on Mediawiki 1.5+ you must add: 
$wgSMTP = array(
'host' => "your.smtp.server",
'IDHost' => "your domain or blank",
'port' => 25,
'auth' => true (or false),
'username' => "username (if auth=true)",
'password' => "password (if auth=true)"
); 

:::...somewhere into LocalSettings.php (found in the Mediawiki's root directory).

After adding the above to your LocalSettings.php file, the SMTP service still probably will not work. If you examine your <code>/var/log/apache/error_log</code> file, it probably will have this error: 

<code>[error] PHP Warning: usermailer(Mail.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/joebleau/public_html/wiki/includes/UserMailer.php on line 82</code>

For some reason, the Wiki's config script screws up the path to the PHP's PEAR extensions. To fix this, edit the LocalSettings.php line that says: 
::<code>$path = array( $IP, "$IP/includes", "$IP/languages");</code>

to say:

::<code>$path = array( $IP, "$IP/includes", "$IP/languages", "/usr/lib/php" );</code>

After that, your smtp outgoing mail should work for your Mediawiki installation.

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