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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: howto have nnimap setup for smtp out
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:10:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn1suhz1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s8g4ddu.fsf@local.lan> (Harry Putnam's message of "Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:53:49 -0500")

>>>>> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:53:49 -0500, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> said:

    Harry> Some of you here will likely be a bit relieved to know that I finally
    Harry> managed to get something working.

    Harry> I failed utterly at getting sendmail or postfix or exim4 to get mail
    Harry> relayed at a Smarthost or smtp relay host.  I mean to say that was
    Harry> some rough slogging too.

    Harry> And now I utterly failed to get anywhere dinking around with
    Harry> smtp.gmail.  But finally I managed to get the smtpmail-send-it code to
    Harry> work with another mail outfit where I've had creds for several years
    Harry> even though I was unable to get any of the big 3 mail software to get
    Harry> relayed thru them.

    Harry> what finally worked:
    Harry>       (setq send-mail-function  'smtpmail-send-it
    Harry>           smtpmail-smtp-server  "smtp.xxxxxxx.com"
    Harry>           smtpmail-stream-type  'ssl
    Harry>           smtpmail-smtp-service 465
    Harry>           user-mail-address "xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.com")

Ah, what I sent you had a missing ', sorry about that.

    Harry> So I can finally reach the internet with my email.

    Harry> One thing I keep pondering though is that, OK, I kind of understand
    Harry> what happens after mail reaches the relay point or relaying
    Harry> smtp.server.  But I'm not understanding what gets it that far.

    Harry> since I broke out on sendmail, postfix and exim4, I have no mta running,
    Harry> so not clear to me how messages are getting to the smtp.server in the
    Harry> code above.

Emacs is making a tls/smtp connection to your smtp.xxxxxxxx.com
server, and delivering the email to it, essentially functioning like
sendmail/postfix etc

Robert


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-26 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-20 15:21 Harry Putnam
2021-01-20 16:03 ` Robert Pluim
2021-01-25 22:20   ` Harry Putnam
2021-01-25 22:42     ` Clemens Schüller
2021-01-25 23:37       ` Malcolm Purvis
2021-01-25 23:47       ` Harry Putnam
2021-01-26 17:49         ` Clemens Schüller
2021-01-25 23:37     ` Harry Putnam
2021-01-26  2:53       ` Harry Putnam
2021-01-26 10:10         ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2021-01-20 16:04 ` Adam Sjøgren
2021-01-20 16:12 ` dick.r.chiang
2021-01-26 17:05   ` Harry Putnam
2021-01-26 17:48     ` Robert Pluim

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