From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/83479 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carson Chittom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: experience setting up gnus for the first time Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:08:29 -0500 Message-ID: <8738rtf92q.fsf@wistly.net> References: <87r4fdtimu.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373029860 28639 80.91.229.3 (5 Jul 2013 13:11:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 13:11:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M31739@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 05 15:11:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uv5mq-0001IZ-CE for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:10:56 +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 1Uv5ko-0002QI-4G; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:08:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Uv5kl-0002Q6-JU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Uv5kj-0006nv-Gx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Uv5kh-0000ZF-HN for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:08:43 +0200 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uv5ke-0007Xs-R0 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-108-131-99-70.jan.bellsouth.net ([108.131.99.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from carson by adsl-108-131-99-70.jan.bellsouth.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:08:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-108-131-99-70.jan.bellsouth.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LJaFWmtUHYes9R5eLf4KMJfcOLA= X-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:83479 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > This was less obvious. Getting SMTP to work required identifying a > whole slew of variables, with the various settings shown here. I am not > yet sure which of these are superfluous but this full set did enable > both fetching and sending of emails. The annoying aspect is having the > same information (e.g. mail address, server) repeated in the > configuration. I'm using the Gnus bundled with Emacs 24, rather than from the git repository, but the first time I tried to send a message, Emacs asked me whether I wanted to use /usr/bin/sendmail, SMTP, or...there was one other option, which I forget. Having selected SMTP, it prompted me for the correct values (server name and so on) and set them in ~/.emacs, and I never had to manually configure anything. Not sure why it didn't work for you?