Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:56:39 UTC
When a user is created that has a dot in the user name, such as jennifer.parga, e-mails cannot be delivered through authenticated SMTP. I was able to locate several instances of this. 1. On Special:Userlogin, when creating a new account, it is possible to create a user name with a dot when submitting through the "Create account" button. However, when creating through the "by e-mail" button, the account is created in the database, but the folowing error is displayed, and the e-mail is not delivered: Login error: Error sending mail: Failed to send data [SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: 554, response: Error: no valid recipients)] 2. On Special:UserLogin, when entering the username of a previously created user with a dot in the name, and submitting the form through the "e-mail password" button, no e-mail is delivered and the following error is displayed: Login error: Error sending mail: Failed to send data [SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: 554, response: Error: no valid recipients)] 3. After logging in as a user with a dot in the username, go to Special:Preferences and click on the "Confirm your email address" link. Click on the "Mail a confirmation code" button. No e-mail is delivered and the following error is displayed: Could not send confirmation mail. Check address for invalid characters. Testing method: I created two accounts. One had a user name with a dot, like jennifer.parga. The other had no dot, like jparga. I used identical real name and e-mail address information in both accounts. I confirmed that my SMTP setup is correct, since I was able to receive e-mail with the jparga account. I also tested several other pairs of accounts to ensure that there were no unprintable characters in the user with the dot.
Can you provide: * The package name & version of the e-mail server * The mail configuration you specified in LocalSettings.php if any * any other information about this setup which sounds relevant
The mail server is running on gentoo linux with postfix and cyrus-sasl providing authenticated SMTP. The portage package of postfix that is installed is 2.2.5. The version of cyrus-sasl is 2.1.20. Here's the mail configuration in LocalSettings.php. Sorry, but I had to change the actual values due to corporate privacy issues. We host our mail and provide SMTP through the machine.subdomain.domain.edu address. Our email addresses are the example.com addresses. $wgEnableEmail = true; $wgEnableUserEmail = true; $wgEmergencyContact = "name@example.com"; $wgPasswordSender = "name@example.com"; $wgSMTP = array( 'host' => "machine.subdomain.domain.edu", 'IDHost' => "example.com", 'port' => 25, 'auth' => true, 'username' => "login", 'password' => "secret" ); The smtpd.conf for sasl is: pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login The relevant section in main.cnf for postfix is: smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous smtpd_sasl_local_domain = broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination
Confirmed, looking into it.
Fixed on trunk in r14676. The changes to UserMailer.php should apply cleanly to the 1.6 release (follow the link to the change list).
