Enabling Email Support
Setting "mail_smarthost" and "mail_from" in the configuration activates features that are explained below. These features are otherwise not available, since there are no general defaults.
mail_from
mail_smarthost
mail_login
See also HelpOnConfiguration.
Email Features
MoinMoin currently offers two email-based services, which are explained in the following sections.
Sending Login Data
If emailing is available, the UserPreferences dialog is expanded with a field "<<GetText(Your email address)>>" and a button "<<GetText( Mail me my account data )>>". The user can enter the email address he provided at registration and then gets an email containing all necessary data to re-login, after clicking the button.
Change Notification
Any user can subscribe to changes of wiki pages by either clicking on the envelope icon <<Icon(moin-email.gif)>>, or by adding a regex to the "Subscribed wiki pages" field of his UserPreferences. The system then sends, whenever a page is changed and the author doesn't uncheck the "<<GetText(Send mail notification)>>" checkbox, an email with the author, a link to the page, and the diff of the change.