Thanks so much for this. I copied the init lines you provided and replaced with my specs, kept a few lines of my original, and presto, I successfully sent an email. I don't know why it works yet, but it does work, which is my Gnus Victory for today!
best, steven [email protected] (N. Jackson) writes: > At 23:58 -0300 on Tuesday 2014-03-11, Steven Arntson wrote: > >> I'm a beginning user of gnus, trying to use it to send emails, with the >> command "m." I compose, and then send with C-c C-c, and it looks like >> it's working, but then the system hangs and times out. > > I'm a beginning user of Gnus too, but I do have a couple of ideas about > what might be wrong with your set up. > >> ;; My Gnus init >> >> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gwene.org")) >> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml "")) >> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods >> '(nnmbox "" >> (nnmbox-mbox-file "~/MAIL") >> (nnmbox-active-file "~/Mail.active"))) >> (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "my.usual-server.com" :user >> "[email protected]"))) >> >> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) >> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) >> (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "my.usual-server.com") ; needs to be >> specified before the (require) >> (require 'smtpmail) >> (setq smtpmail-local-domain "mydomain.com") >> (setq smtpmail-sendto-domain "mydomain.com") >> (setq user-full-name "My Name") >> (setq user-mail-address (concat "me@" smtpmail-local-domain)) >> (setq smtpmail-debug-info t) ; only to debug problems > > I don't see you telling smtpmail which user account to log in > with. Also, if the SMTP server is on a port other than 25, then I think > you have to specify that too. > > On the other hand, maybe it can get that information from your > .authinfo file -- I still haven't figured that out. My password is > certainly being retreived from my .authinfo file, so I don't really see > why everything can't be retrieved from there at the same time! > > FWIw, I have this: > > (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it > smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com" > smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com" > smtpmail-smtp-service 587 ; TCP Port. > smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil)) > smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 > "[email protected]" nil)) > ) > > I don't seem to need a (require 'sendmail). > > For the TLS, I have this: > > (setq starttls-use-gnutls t > starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls-cli" > ) > > I hope some of this helps! > > N. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
