Question

I'm trying to install TWiki on a server that has no email capability. This server is behind it's own firewall and cannot generate email even to users of the intranet.

Is email capability a requirement for TWiki?

Chris howardc@prpaPLEASENOSPAM.org

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 06 Jan 2005

Answer

Twiki will still work for the most part but some functions will not. WebChangesAlert (e.g. WebNotify) in particular and I think perhaps the reset/change password stuff.

twiki does have some internal mail handling code but I don't know if it would work for you or not (see TWikiPreferences and lib/TWiki.cfg to Net::SMTP).

-- MattWilkie - 06 Jan 2005

You should be fine for everything except registration emails (not essential) and WebNotify (which is nice, but you can use TWikiSyndication to provide an RSS feed instead). So you don't have to have email for TWiki to work well.

-- RichardDonkin - 07 Jan 2005

Note, however, that since RegisterCgiScriptRewrite was merged, DevelopBranch (DakarRelease) requires users to confirm their email addresses before finalising their registration. This currently not optional.

-- MartinCleaver - 07 Jan 2005

The existing registration sends an e-mail by default. An error is reported if there is an error sending out the mail. To work around this, configure TWiki to use an external mail program instead of Net::SMTP (see TWikiSiteTools. On Unix specify /dev/null for the external sendmail program.

Martin: The confirm registration should be made optional with a switch to make it compatible with the existing spec and to support behind firwall users.

-- PeterThoeny - 10 Jan 2005