Re: authentication method fails

[Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>]

Florian Weimer wrote:

> This doesn't add up. The error message
> suggests that the Gnus mail setup is
> incorrect. That's not really related to
> Gmane; I'd expect that sending any mail would
> fail under these circumstances.

[EB: Got this as mail from they guy]

Here is a minimal configuration of .gnus and
.emacs. Passwords are stored in .authinfo and
it is possible to send mails but it is not
possible to authenticate against Gmane
(attached is an error message with this setup):

[EB: The error message says: Couldn't send
     message via news: 441. You need a valid
     email address to post: Invalid response
     from STMP server ... : ... (...) Nemesis
     ESMTP Service not available]

; .gnus
; (email and username have been replaced with placeholders)
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
(setq
  smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.1und1.de"
  smtpmail-smtp-service 587
  user-mail-address "mail@address"
      user-full-name "my name")

(setq nnmail-split-methods
      '(("mail.gnus" "Subject:.*gnus.*")
        ("mail" "")))

(setq mail-sources
      '((pop :server "pop.1und1.de"
             :port 995
             :user "mail@address"
             :stream ssl)))

; .emacs
(custom-set-variables
  '(send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it)))

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