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E-Mail Configuration

When configured, Moin features two email-based services; sending mail, and receiving mail. Both are explained on this page.

Sending mail

The most common scenario is configuring your wiki to send mail, which is used in the following situations:

Recovering passwords

Users who have forgotten their passwords can request an email (which will be sent to the email address on file) and will contain password reset instructions (and a token to authenticate the password reset.)

Change Notification

Any user can subscribe to changes of wiki pages by either clicking on the envelope icon , or by adding a regex to the "Subscribed wiki pages" field of his user preferences. The system then sends, whenever a page is changed and the author doesn't uncheck the "Send mail notification" checkbox, an email with the author, a link to the page, and the diff of the change. The author does not get notified of his own changes.

To configure mail-sending, the following options need to be configured in your wikiconfig.py file: