From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66343 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: smtpmail failure Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:37:14 +0100 Message-ID: <874pc2drth.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <87odaicrnk.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203622759 16577 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2008 19:39:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:39:19 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14834@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 21 20:39:43 2008 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 4.50) id 1JSHGZ-0004qa-N4 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:39:36 +0100 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 1JSHEg-00043G-40; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:37:38 -0600 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 1JSHEe-00042x-PS for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:37:36 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JSHEY-000408-SB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:37:36 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1JSHEb-00009m-00 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:37:33 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JSHEO-0002zi-FU for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:37:20 +0000 Original-Received: from i5387dd23.versanet.de ([83.135.221.35]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:37:20 +0000 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i5387dd23.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:37:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i5387dd23.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.2 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66343 Archived-At: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:47:59 +0100 Stephen Berman wrote: > With one of my email accounts I've been unable to send mail using Gnus [...] > with KMail I > can send mail from this account. KMail has a configuration function > that check what kind of authentification the server supports, and for > this account it says the server supports SSL encryption and either LOGIN > or PLAIN authentification, and it changes the port from 25 to 465. > Since the smptmail manual says LOGIN authentification is supported, and > since it works with KMail, I do not understand why it fails with Gnus. > Have I failed to set a necessary variable? Is there another way to send > mail with Gnus via an SMTP server? I would be grateful for any help. Does nobody have an idea why smptmail fails? Or any suggestions about how I could try to track down the source of the failure? I would rather use Gnus than KMail. Steve Berman