From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Setting up mail
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 14:48:59 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9y3bzoong4.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cmbgat$h6e$1@sea.gmane.org>
>>>>> In <cmbgat$h6e$1@sea.gmane.org> Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I have a seemingly elementary question that I can't seem to find an answer
> to. I'm getting into using Emacs (ideally exclusively for things like
> editing, email, newsgroups, etc.). I've gotten gnus to display articles
>>From a newsgroup server and I've been going through the manual learing how
> to mark, score, etc. However, I don't seem to be able to post or mail from
> gnus. The default is set to use sendmail as the agent (which I thought was
> working on my system) but no mail goes out. So I'd like to change it to
> use my ISP's smtp server
You can find how to change the way to send mails in the Gnus manual.
M-x info RET d m Gnus RET m Posting Server RET:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
When sending mail, Message invokes `message-send-mail-function'.
The default function, `message-send-mail-with-sendmail', pipes your
article to the `sendmail' binary for further queuing and sending. When
your local system is not configured for sending mail using `sendmail',
and you have access to a remote SMTP server, you can set
`message-send-mail-function' to `smtpmail-send-it' and make sure to
setup the `smtpmail' package correctly. An example:
(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
smtpmail-default-smtp-server "YOUR SMTP HOST")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
You will also need to see the smtpmail.el file. In order to
know where it is, type the following:
M-x locate-library RET smtpmail.el RET
> and was not sure about the syntax and where to put
> it (I don't currently have a ~/.gnus file (using SUSE) but I do have a
> ~/.gnu-emacs file. Do I need to create a .gnus file?
> Thanks for the assistance.
I recommend you use the ~/.gnus.el file rather than the ~/.gnus
file. Anyway, that file is essential to use Gnus, I think. It
is used to customize most Gnus features including the method for
reading and posting news. Here's an example which you should
put into the ~/.gnus.el file in order to use the smtpmail package.
(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
You will also need to put the following lines in the ~/.emacs
file. The reason it is not ~/.gnus.el but ~/.emacs is that
smtpmail is not only for Gnus.
(setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "YOUR SMTP HOST")
(setq smtpmail-local-domain "YOUR DOMAIN NAME")
(setq smtpmail-sendto-domain "YOUR DOMAIN NAME")
Where "YOUR SMTP HOST" and "YOUR DOMAIN NAME" should be replaced
with proper ones.
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2004-11-03 20:49 Trey Sizemore
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