Azure websites & MediaWiki: how to enable emails sending

问题

for example, when user creates an account, resets password etc.

First step is to set mail server credentials in LocalSettings.php file, as per this document: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgSMTP#Example_using_Google_Mail

But after you do this, you will get "PEAR mail package is not installed" error message. How to solve this?

回答1:

Turns out it's relatively simple:

1. Make sure your mail server credentials are correct
2. FTP to root folder and rename index.php into index.php.old - otherwise it gets overridden
3. Install PEAR manager, using "Hosted website" workflow
4. Rename pear.conf into pear.ini - otherwise you won't be able to start web manager
5. Create .user.ini file in your root folder and add your physical path to pear into *include_path* variable - kudoz to this article: http://chrisrisner.com/Using-PEAR-with-Windows-Azure-Websites-and-PHP

6. Open web manager (http://domain.name/index.php) and install the following packages in PEAR (not sure if some of them are redundant but after I installed them, i was able to connect to GMAIL server)

   • Auth_SASL
   • Mail
   • Mail_Mime
   • Net_SMTP

7. Rename index.php into index.php.pear, and go-pear.php into go-pear.php.pear, and rename index.php.old back to index.php

8. Try to register - you should get an email

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17981481/azure-websites-mediawiki-how-to-enable-emails-sending