Re: gnus and smtp auth

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Hiroshi Fujishima <hiroshi.fujishima@gmail.com> writes:

> Samir Saidani <saidani@info.unicaen.fr> writes:
>
>> I managed to send mail through smtpmail and without authentification
>> with no problems, and I can send mails through smtpmail with
>> authentification using gmail (I tried the .gnus here :
>> http://web.phys.ntnu.no/~terjeros/gnus-gmail/)
>>
>> When I replace the .gnus configuration (from terjeros) with the right
>> settings, it hangs and there is nothing in smtp debug.
>
> I encountered the same trouble, too. 
>
> In the cause, the behavior of gnutls-cli is of change according to the
> value of process-connection-type:
>
> (let ((process-connection-type t))
>   (start-process "test" (current-buffer) "gnutls-cli" "-s" "-p" "587" "smtp.gmail.com"))
>
> 	Resolving 'smtp.gmail.com'...
> 	Connecting to '64.233.185.109:587'...
> 	
> 	- Simple Client Mode:
> 	
> 	220 mx.gmail.com ESMTP d61sm300512wra
> 	
> (let ((process-connection-type nil))
>   (start-process "test" (current-buffer) "gnutls-cli" "-s" "-p" "587" "smtp.gmail.com"))
>
> 	220 mx.gmail.com ESMTP 33sm823777wra
>
> Since default value of starttls-process-connection-type is nil,
> starttls-connect regexp in starttls-open-stream-gnutls() does not
> match.  So emacs hangs.  Gnutls version which I use is:

Does sending mail work if you toggle s-p-c-t?  It is not clear what
the best default for that variable should be.