Re: experience setting up gnus for the first time

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net> writes:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

[...]

>> It would be useful to know what variables Emacs set for your
>> configuration.  Maybe post them?  
>
> Hmm...looks like it did the following to ~/.emacs
>
> (custom-set-variables
>  '(send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it))
>  '(smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.example.com")
>  '(smtpmail-smtp-service 587))

yes, I think Emacs set the same variables for me.  The problem, in my
case, is that the server is based at outlook.com and sending emails
requires the From field to be a valid address that jives with my login
but is not the actual login.  Obviously, the automation from Emacs does
not cater for this case!

Anyway, as I said earlier, I hope my contribution to the list will help
some future user new to gnus/emacs!

thanks,
eric

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