Re: Can't send message through smtp with gmail

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

mihkel <turakas@gmail.com> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> my advice would be to use nognus and the built in multi smtp support.
>>
>> in your .authinfo:
>>
>> something like:
>>
>> machine smtp.gmail.com login accid1 port 587 password password1
>> machine smtp.gmail.com login accid2 port 587 password password2
>>
>> In your gnus posting styles for the group in question:-
>>
>> 			     (X-Message-SMTP-Method "smtp smtp.gmail.com 587 acc1")
>>
>> Its there somewhere in the gnus manual. But googling for
>> x-message-smtp-method will show a previous thread on this.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> r.
>
> Hi.
>
> I took your advice and it works great. Thanks!
>
> Now my gnus init file look alot cleaner. I was able to discard 
> (defvar smtp-accounts ...)
> (defadvice smtpmail-via-smtp ... )
> (defun change-smtp () ... )
>
> Just for those who tackle with the same problem. My updated
> gnus-posting-style looks like this:
>
> ;; Let Gnus change the "From:" line by looking at current group we are
> ;; in.
> (setq gnus-posting-styles
>       '(("account1"
> 	  (address "account1@gmail.com")
> 	  (name "myname")
> 	  (X-Message-SMTP-Method "smtp smtp.gmail.com 587 account1@gmail.com"))
> 	 ("account2"
> 	  (address "account2@gmail.com")
> 	  (name "myname")
> 	  (X-Message-SMTP-Method "smtp smtp.gmail.com 587 account2@gmail.com")) 
> 	 ("account3"
> 	  (address "account3@gmail.com")
> 	  (name "myname")
> 	  (X-Message-SMTP-Method "smtp smtp.gmail.com 587 account3@gmail.com"))
> 	 ("account4"
> 	  (address "account4@gmail.com")
> 	  (name "myname")
> 	  (X-Message-SMTP-Method "smtp smtp.gmail.com 587 chino.toru@gmail.com"))
> 	 ("account5" (address "account5@hot.ee")
> 	  (name "myname")
> 	  (X-Message-SMTP-Method "smtp mail.hot.ee 25 account5"))
> 	 ))
>
> mihkel
>

Glad it worked for you. Its complicated and somewhat hard to figure out
without examples and especially if you dont know posting styles etc
previously. Next thing to do is set up authfiles as gpg. Keeping
important email passwords (which are often the same as important account
ones) in plain text files is bordering on lunacy. Assuming youre using
Linux then look into gpg-agent and keychain.