From: Will Kahn-Greene Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:07:19 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Minor rewording X-Git-Url: https://vcs.fsf.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c8e20cf13db50f2e51ade41e204ae5e0501e4e5;p=mediagoblin.git Minor rewording Tried to address confusion I had when I read the document and tweaked some formatting. --- diff --git a/docs/source/configuration.rst b/docs/source/configuration.rst index 6596cef4..a3dafa4c 100644 --- a/docs/source/configuration.rst +++ b/docs/source/configuration.rst @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Configuring MediaGoblin So! You've got MediaGoblin up and running, but you need to adjust some configuration parameters. Well you've come to the right place! + MediaGoblin's config files ========================== @@ -84,16 +85,20 @@ Common changes Enabling email notifications ---------------------------- -You'll almost certainly want to enable sending emails. By default, +You'll almost certainly want to enable sending email. By default, MediaGoblin doesn't really do this... for the sake of developer -convenience, it runs in "email debug mode". Change this:: +convenience, it runs in "email debug mode". + +To make MediaGoblin send email, you need a mailer daemon. + +Change this in your ``mediagoblin.ini`` file:: email_debug_mode = false -You can (and should) change the "from" email address by setting -``email_sender_address``. +You should also change the "from" email address by setting +``email_sender_address``. For example:: -Note that you need a mailer daemon running for this to work. + email_sender_address = "foo@example.com" If you have more custom SMTP settings, you also have the following options at your disposal, which are all optional, and do exactly what @@ -104,17 +109,19 @@ they sound like. - email_smtp_user - email_smtp_pass + All other configuration changes ------------------------------- To be perfectly honest, there are quite a few options and we haven't had -time to document them all +time to document them all. So here's a cop-out section saying that if you get into trouble, hop onto IRC and we'll help you out:: #mediagoblin on irc.freenode.net + Celery ======