Re: Feature bleah

[William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>]

Steven L. Baur writes:
>>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>
>Lars> Anyways.  This might be a good opportunity to declare a feature
>Lars> freeze and aim for releasing Red Gnus 5.4 Novemberish.  After
>Lars> that, it's a fruity Gnus, I guess.  If I can get that
>Lars> inspiration back.  *sob* *whine*
>
>Shoot.  I'd like to see Gnus able to talk SMTP directly, so that it
>does not need to fork a local sendmail.  After all if Netscape can do
>it, Gnus should be doing it better.
>
>I don't think this is much code to write.  Any possibility for this
>feature in Red Gnus?

  This is in Emacs 19.34 - I use it all the time at work, since I am behind
a SOCKS firewall, and sendmail doesn't grok it.  Check this out:

(setq
 send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
 smtpmail-default-smtp-server "newman"
 smtpmail-local-domain "aventail.com")

(require 'smtpmail)

Voila! Works great for me (using the elisp SOCKS client I wrote a while
back :)  This is definitely something we need to synch up with Emacs 19.34
for the 19.15 release of XEmacs.

-Bill P.