From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus (smtpmail/nnimap) on NT without Cygwin?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:27:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluacj1m9m0.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ubr3iqcj9.fsf@boost-consulting.com> (David Abrahams's message of "Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:58:02 -0400")
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> Does anyone know what I need to install to get smtpmail and nnimap to
>> work without Cygwin?
>>
>> The work I'm doing for a client required me to install their special
>> version of Cygwin, which I foolishly did alongside my existing one.
>> Thereafter, my SMTP mail sending began to fail. Despite the fact that
>> I have smtp-debug-info set to t, I get no *trace of ...* buffer. All
>> I see is (in *Messages*):
>>
>> Sending...
>> Sending via mail...
>> message-send-mail-with-sendmail: Sending...failed with exit value 1
>>
>> So I decided to rebuild emacs without cygwin, and actually managed to
>> figure out how to use MinGW and get an emacs with image support on NT!
>> Fantastic!
>>
>> But smtpmail still fails in the same way.
>
> Solved; it looks like my exim got updated and it was looking for an
> executable with the wrong version number. I didn't see an error
> message that gave me a clue about the problem, though, until I went
> into my nndraft:queue group and tried to send all messages. Maybe the
> regular mail sending process could be fixed to yield better error
> messages.
Considering the error message (...mail-with-SENDMAIL...) it looks as
if you are using sendmail.el rather than smtpmail.el. Sendmail.el
require a local MTA as external binary, but smtpmail.el will talk
directly to your outbound mail server.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-29 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-28 9:15 David Abrahams
2005-08-28 15:58 ` David Abrahams
2005-08-29 8:27 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2005-08-29 13:44 ` David Abrahams
2005-08-28 17:14 ` Simon Josefsson
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