From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60832 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus (smtpmail/nnimap) on NT without Cygwin? Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:27:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125304102 18375 80.91.229.2 (29 Aug 2005 08:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9364=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 29 10:28:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9ezX-0007aZ-CO for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:27:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E9ezW-0002xK-02 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:27:42 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E9ezR-0002xC-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:27:37 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E9ezQ-0003lO-5N for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E9ezO-0003Cd-00 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:27:34 +0200 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (c494102a.s-bi.bostream.se [217.215.27.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id j7T8R8rN016103 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:27:14 +0200 Original-To: David Abrahams OpenPGP: id=B565716F; url=http://josefsson.org/key.txt X-Hashcash: 1:21:050829:dave@boost-consulting.com::jU+rcft6uwLdb/Jf:1l7t X-Hashcash: 1:21:050829:ding@gnus.org::TNqxlYTacc+1YFIh:66ae In-Reply-To: (David Abrahams's message of "Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:58:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=failed version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yxa-iv X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.84, clamav-milter version 0.84e on yxa.extundo.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60832 Archived-At: David Abrahams writes: > David Abrahams 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.