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Last modified by Alexandru Pentilescu on 2023/06/25 18:56
From version 39.1
edited by Alexandru Pentilescu
on 2022/06/09 22:46
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To version 45.1
edited by Alexandru Pentilescu
on 2022/06/09 23:05
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262 262  I intentionally left the "View" and "Comment" rights specifically allowed for "Unregistered Users" as I believe that visitors should, intrinsically, have the ability to contribute to content as they see fit, without having to register for an account. You may wish to tweak these user rights as you see fit, though.
263 263  If you will allow unregistered users to comment, though, please consider checking the checkbox below for requiring them to solve a CAPTCHA for each comment, like I did. This will prevent technically savvy individuals from writing automated scripts or bots that will access your wiki and continously and automatically keep generating machine-generated text comments. While this will not prevent humans from posting spam on your Wiki, it should prevent bots from doing so.
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266 +== Configuring an SMTP server for your XWiki ==
267 +
268 +Having a reachable SMTP server that your XWiki instance can use may come in handy, at some point.
269 +The most obvious example of this is when you forget your XWiki user's password. When this happens, you will not be able to login anymore and, if this was the password for your administrator account, then, you're out of luck.
270 +Having the option to reset your password via email will be really useful in this particular case. Of course, this implies that the email you set during your account setup is not outdated and still in your control.
271 +To configure an SMTP server, go to the "Administer Wiki" section of the hamburger menu again, then expand the "Mail" section of the options on the left side and finally click on the "Mail Sending" menu option.
272 +[[image:Mail.png]]
273 +Of course, the exact configuration options you have to enter depend on your SMTP server's configuration. If you configured mandatory authentication on your SMTP server, you will have to enter login credentials here. I don't have to do that, personally.
274 +The "EMAIL ADDRESS TO SEND FROM" can be any email address you wish to configure. Preferrably, it should be under the domain name of the machine where you're running your XWiki from (in my case, under "pentilescu.com").
275 +The "EMAIL SERVER" option is a bit trickier. Assuming you're using postfix as your SMTP server, this should be an email configured in the "inet_interfaces" setting from the "/etc/postfix/main.cf" configuration file.
276 +Also, if your postfix is not configured to accept email relays from outside its network, as mine does, you must remember to edit "/etc/postfix/main.cf" to add "192.168.80.3" to its "mynetworks" configuration, to, essentially, whitelist your docker container as a valid relay source, otherwise it will deny any email sending requests from it.
277 +Please be sure to use the appropriate IP address as configured in your "docker-compose.yml" file for your xwiki service.
278 +For more information about postfix and setting it up, please visit the "How to setup a postfix SMTP server" article in the external references section at the bottom of this article!
279 +
265 265  = External references =
266 266  
267 267  [[Official docker guide for installing XWiki>>https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-docker/blob/master/README.md]]
268 -How to setup an Nginx reverse proxy and also provide a global X.509 certificate for it -- NOT YET WRITTEN!--
283 +How to setup an Nginx reverse proxy and also provide a global X.509 certificate for it [NOT YET WRITTEN!]
284 +How to setup a postfix SMTP server [NOT YET WRITTEN]
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