Question

Hello,

I'm in the process of setting up TWiki on my Mac and once I tried to create a new user, I got the following message:

"Error registering new user

Internal error when sending email to diehl@alumniPLEASENOSPAM.cmu.edu.

Please contact diehl@alumniPLEASENOSPAM.cmu.edu.

You have not been registered."

Before I simply abandon email notifications of any kind, I'm wondering if someone can give me some direction on how to diagnose the problem. Honestly I'm not surprised it does not work. I set the email configuration parameters in configure in a way as to, hopefully, send outgoing mail via my GMail account. I did not set up a cron job as indicated in the OSX specific install documentation since I'm not sure what that implies I should do. cron jobs are new to me.

Any additional guidance from more experienced users would be greatly appreciated. I've dived head first into wikis just recently, starting with MediaWiki? , and have battled through lots of new challenges. I'm hoping to get TWiki to where I need it since it seems to be a nice solution offering me what I need.

Thanks in advance for your help, Chris

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