From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/88518 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: authentication method fails Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:32:42 +0200 Message-ID: <865zr4gxo5.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <86r29wm8md.fsf@zoho.eu> <87sgu8y1bv.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="168701"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M36721@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Apr 24 00:33:47 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ3yz-000hgF-Mz for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:33:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ3yI-0007sk-DG; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ3yB-0007nY-4q for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:32:55 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ3y8-0003CD-PB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:32:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (helo=blaine.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ3y4-0003tl-Nv for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:32:51 +0200 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hJ3y4-000ghH-Gc for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:32:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:SFItCW2ehR8+DojvvoXrDU+NBZ4= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:88518 Archived-At: Florian Weimer wrote: >> I got an e-mail saying the traditional Gnus >> setup with `gnus-select-method' and >> `gnus-secondary-select-methods' does not work >> for certain mail servers. >> >> Sadly, it's not working. I tried this >> a few times before and the error message >> indicates, that my mail server does not >> support the authentication method: >> Couldn't send message via news: 441 You >> need a valid email address to post: >> Invalid response from SMTP server >> mx01.emig.kundenserver.de: >> 554-kundenserver.de (mxeue112) Nemesis >> ESMTP Service not available. (the mail >> address i am using is an @online.de) >> >> I don't know nothing about online.de but >> I never heard of anyone having this issue >> before? Is it common, and is there >> a workaround? > > This looks like an SMTP error message to me. > Has the user configured SMTP authentication > at all? I don't know, and I don't know if I did that either, but it sure works for me, as you can see. I set the SMTP port (`smtpmail-smtp-service') to 587 witch is the one for starttls, if that's what you mean? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573