Thanks for your comment. But we really haven’t configured anything regarding email.
Here is the relevant excerpt from the file:
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[…]
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; Security Settings ;
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[…]
; A space delimited list of uins to make admin
;implicit_auth_admin_list = “jdoe@email.ca jshmo@email.ca”
; URL of the implicit auth ‘Way Finder’ page. See pages/login/LoginHandler.inc.php for usage.
;implicit_auth_wayf_url = “/Shibboleth.sso/wayf”
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; Email Settings ;
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[email]
; Use SMTP for sending mail instead of mail()
; smtp = On
; SMTP server settings
; smtp_server = mail.example.com
; smtp_port = 25
; Enable SMTP authentication
; Supported mechanisms: ssl, tls
; smtp_auth = ssl
; smtp_username = username
; smtp_password = password
; Allow envelope sender to be specified
; (may not be possible with some server configurations)
; allow_envelope_sender = Off
; Default envelope sender to use if none is specified elsewhere
; default_envelope_sender = my_address@my_host.com
; Force the default envelope sender (if present)
; This is useful if setting up a site-wide no-reply address
; The reply-to field will be set with the reply-to or from address.
; force_default_envelope_sender = Off
; Force a DMARC compliant from header (RFC5322.From)
; If any of your users have email addresses in domains not under your control
; you may need to set this to be compliant with DMARC policies published by
; those 3rd party domains.
; Setting this will move the users address into the reply-to field and the
; from field wil be rewritten with the default_envelope_sender.
; To use this you must set force_default_enveloper_sender = On and
; default_envelope_sender must be set to a valid address in a domain you own.
; force_dmarc_compliant_from = Off
; The display name to use with a DMARC compliant from header
; By default the DMARC compliant from will have an empty name but this can
; be changed by adding a text here.
; You can use ‘%n’ to insert the users name from the original from header
; and ‘%s’ to insert the localized sitename.
; dmarc_compliant_from_displayname = ‘%n via %s’
; Amount of time required between attempts to send non-editorial emails
; in seconds. This can be used to help prevent email relaying via OJS.
time_between_emails = 3600
; Maximum number of recipients that can be included in a single email
; (either as To:, Cc:, or Bcc: addresses) for a non-privileged user
max_recipients = 10
; If enabled, email addresses must be validated before login is possible.
require_validation = Off
; Maximum number of days before an unvalidated account expires and is deleted
validation_timeout = 14
[…]
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