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On ubuntu 8.04: 
Mediawiki version: 1:1.11.2-2ubuntu0.2

======Description ============
With email confirmations enabled it will send out an confirmation email on account creation. However, after account creation an error message displays: 'Could not send confirmation mail. Check address for invalid characters. Mailer returned: 1'
The mail is sent properly despite the error message.

======Analysis================
UserMailer::userMailer is expected to return '' on success and [error message as a string] on error.
But, according to the pear api: ->send returns true on success and e Pear_error oject on failure
see: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.send.php

======Workaround=============
Edit mediawiki/includes/UserMailer.php:154

== previous code ==
else
   return $mail_object->send($dest, $headers, $body);
===================
 
== workaround =====
else {
   $e = $mail_object->send($dest, $headers, $body);
   if ( $e == true ) {
      return '';
   } else {
      return $e;
   }
}