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Beta Cluster sends password reset mails with prod address
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Password reminders from the "Forget password" feature are being send with the production value wiki@wikimedia.org of $wgPasswordSender.

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Maybe we should change it to wiki@wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org. Does that address need to exist?

Maybe we should change it to wiki@wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org.

Sounds like the logical one, agreed.

Does that address need to exist?

" Some SMTP servers may refuse to send the mail to the recipients if the sender address does not exist or does not match the username configured in $wgSMTP. "

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordSender

This seems mostly a Mediawiki config issue.

Change 428026 had a related patch set (by MarcoAurelio) published:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] labs: use a $wgPasswordSender different from the production one

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/428026

Change 428026 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] labs: use a $wgPasswordSender different from the production one

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/428026

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Tested and works. Thanks.