From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79430 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: prompt for smtp Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:08:47 +0530 Message-ID: <82pqljiq7c.fsf@gmail.com> References: <0mfwmfww7r.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87tyavg01t.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <2zoc13d5oa.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310215154 1288 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2011 12:39:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 12:39:14 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27726@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jul 09 14:39:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfWoN-0004wh-Vl for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:39:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QfWoK-0002vC-Ms; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QfWoJ-0002uz-HT for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QfWoI-0008LE-No for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:39:03 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QfWoH-0001ie-Bq for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:39:01 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfWoG-0004sx-H2 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:39:00 +0200 Original-Received: from 122.179.30.35 ([122.179.30.35]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:39:00 +0200 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.179.30.35 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:39:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.179.30.35 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/23.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LINsEGZ7Z/MjOSQE/Qvdk9Mv3LQ= X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79430 Archived-At: On Sat, Jul 09 2011,Richard Riley wrote: > Richard Riley writes: > >> lee writes: >> >>> Richard Riley writes: >>> >>>> Hi, can someone point me to the info I need to get latest gnus working : >>>> it prompts me for smtp server when I send. I use local exim4 configured >>>> to use a smart host. entering nothing or localhost both cause gnus to >>>> hang there doing nothing. >>> >>> (setq send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it) [snipped 12 lines] > OK, I tried this, and it's still prompting. If I revert to n-017 its > fine. There is a thread going on Emacs-dev over rewriting/configuring smtpmail over this prompt. Maybe you should review it and let them know what worked and what didn't and let Lars know too. sivaram --