Re: Multiple SMTP servers with Gnus?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

(I hit `C-c C-c' prematurely.)

The first time somebody sends email in an Emacs, I think they should be
prompted for what outgoing SMTP server to use.  Perhaps they should be
prompted for each different right hand side they use (by default)?  So
if I send from larsi@gnus.org, I'm prompted, and then Emacs starts
maintaining a Customize alist of something like

((".*@gnus.org" "smtp.gnus.org")
 (".*@gmail.com" "smtp.gmail.com"))

or whatever.

For Linux users, this would be a pretty radical change, since the
current defaults are to just use the MTA that's supposed to be installed
on the OS.

Perhaps the first-time prompt should also ask you whether to use
smtpmail directly or use the OS MTA?  It would be nice if Message could
figure out automatically whether the OS has a usable outgoing MTA, but I
think that's pretty much impossible.  This Ubuntu install had exim, but
was configured for local delivery only.  How...  useful.

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen