Mediawiki email - not working

[madmodder]

I have installed, using your support tools, the MediWiki and have transferred our pages from an older, less-functional wiki. The MediaWiki is working fine, thank you very much, except for one thing.

I am trying to enable outgoing email. This is primarily used to very email addresses during registration for the Wiki. I followed the instructions on the MediWiki hel pages at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgSMTP and set the variable to the settings to send out through smtp.mydomain.com

But I get the following errors when I attempt to use the feature:


Warning: UserMailer::require_once(Mail.php) [function.UserMailer-require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/domains/mydomain.com/docs/mwiki/includes/UserMailer.php on line 114

Fatal error: UserMailer::require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Mail.php' (include_path='/var/www/domains/mydomain.com/docs/mwiki:/var/www/domains/mydomain.com/docs/mwiki/includes:/var/www/domains/mydomain.com/docs/mwiki/languages:.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /var/www/domains/mydomain.com/docs/mwiki/includes/UserMailer.php on line 114


One thing that I noticed was that the MediaWiki says it requires PEAR mail

Warning: This setting requires PEAR's Mail package to be installed (run "pear install MAIL" and "pear install Net_SMTP").

Do you know if I can get PEAR Mail installed or if I can get MediaWiki to enable email?

[community-manager]

That is interesting, let me look into the problem and get back to you Madmodder...

[kazey]

Have you tried setting it to false and using the built in php mail() function instead?

[madmodder]

No, I haven't but I will and post the results.

[WrigleyF]

After reading this I used kazey's solution b/c I was having a similar issue. Setting it to false and using php mail really did the trick!