Re: Multiple SMTP servers with Gnus?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

> Especially since gmail smtp (commonly used) wont let you post using
> arbitrary from addresses from the same smtp login and more and more
> dynamic IPs are blacklisted as spam making posting from your local lan
> a touch and go affair.
>
> Another issue is SPF record checking.

Right.  So there definitely is a good use case here, and since sending
email doesn't work on a standard Ubuntu install, I think Something
Should Be Done.

But on what level?  I think Gnus is the wrong place to do it, so it
would either be a Message thing, or an smtpmail.el thing.

In either case -- what should the user be presented with?

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"

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