From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,URI_NOVOWEL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 13886 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2021 02:54:43 -0000 Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu (129.7.128.32) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 26 Jan 2021 02:54:43 -0000 Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1l4EV7-003IwA-05 for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:54:41 -0600 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1l4EV6-008YYo-F0 for ml@inbox.vuxu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:54:40 -0600 Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1l4EV4-008YYd-C8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:54:38 -0600 Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([95.216.78.240]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94) (envelope-from ) id 1l4EUn-003GBr-Ji for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:54:37 -0600 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnus.org; s=20200322; h=Content-Type:Mime-Version:References:Message-ID:Date:Subject: From:To:Sender:Reply-To:Cc:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=d32EeulSHKNg7iqz308XPhHHM2mqF3T2qvHHPSp704A=; b=fPRLaPoc77M03mxEIMGg08Mt3E po7/59i4sD0iLZKVCHO5VK6Wb6kF5Oep1KBQPbXoTK09XLMX6sNRK5ZBifBuV4t4j31jT+lngb8G7 n8qlksgPdWtsUoas5aJMKg23igGgYcS7LA4Zzp5gYuUvlr9AQomdYAdI617i0pFZDF7s=; Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l4EUd-0004vN-Ko for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 03:54:17 +0100 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1l4EUc-0000G7-VO for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2021 03:54:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: ding@gnus.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: Re: howto have nnimap setup for smtp out Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:53:49 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <878s8g4ddu.fsf@local.lan> References: <87czxzprau.fsf@local.lan> <87r1mfvbnj.fsf@gmail.com> <87zh0w7j70.fsf@local.lan> <87czxs610z.fsf@local.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fy14JC5ItuzgvgueoHgO4IP7Jgw= List-ID: Precedence: bulk Some of you here will likely be a bit relieved to know that I finally managed to get something working. I failed utterly at getting sendmail or postfix or exim4 to get mail relayed at a Smarthost or smtp relay host. I mean to say that was some rough slogging too. And now I utterly failed to get anywhere dinking around with smtp.gmail. But finally I managed to get the smtpmail-send-it code to work with another mail outfit where I've had creds for several years even though I was unable to get any of the big 3 mail software to get relayed thru them. what finally worked: (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.xxxxxxx.com" smtpmail-stream-type 'ssl smtpmail-smtp-service 465 user-mail-address "xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.com") So I can finally reach the internet with my email. One thing I keep pondering though is that, OK, I kind of understand what happens after mail reaches the relay point or relaying smtp.server. But I'm not understanding what gets it that far. since I broke out on sendmail, postfix and exim4, I have no mta running, so not clear to me how messages are getting to the smtp.server in the code above. Thank you all for putting up with some seriously dim witted questions.