Re: Multiple gmail accounts and SMTP (again)

[Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 25 2011,Johnny  wrote:


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> (For SMTP, I am using the emacs-wiki setup, as described here:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultipleSMTPAccounts)
>
> I then attempted to use virtual server names for SMTP as well, i.e.:
> In .gnus.el:
> (setq smtp-accounts '(
>                       (ssl "gmail1" "smtp.gmail.com" "587"
>                             "gmail1@gmail.com" nil)
>                       (ssl "gmail2" "smtp.gmail.com" "587"
>                             "gmail2@gmail.com" nil)))
>
> And in authinfo:
>  machine gmail1 login gmail1@gmail.com password gmail1pass port 587
>  machine gmail2 login gmail2@gmail.com password gmail2pass port 587
>
> This breaks the sendmail/authinfo functionality such that I have to
> enter credentials every time sending mail from either account.
>
> If I instead replace the 2 lines above in authinfo with:
>  machine smtp.gmail.com login gmail1@gmail.com password gmail1pass port 587
>
> This makes mailing from both addresses work. I /think/ the setup makes
> gmail2 use gmail1's SMTP credentials to send the mail (note that I
> didn't have to do any changes in .gnus.el on the gmail2 credentials),
> and indeed, when it is received, the posting-styles for gmail2 is used,
> but the senders mail address has been changed to gmail1, which I do not
> fancy at all.
>
> Any ideas on how to enable using either gmail as sender?
>
> Cheers

Can you post your customised sendmail parts that you took from 
 http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultipleSMTPAccounts

It's possible that smtp-mail-address is not getting correctly picked up?

 sivaram
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