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Dave Cohen <dnc@bigfoot.com> writes:

> Instead, when I send mail, emacs shows me "sending..." in the
> minibuffer, but it never returns.  [...]
>
> Does anyone out there have experience with VSClient or products like
> it?  Can someone give me an better understanding about what emacs does
> when sending mail?  Any tips on debugging this?

Evaluate

(setq smtpmail-debug-info t)

and you'll get a SMTP protocol trace in a buffer "*trace of SMTP
session to whatever*".

Perhaps your server require authentication, in that case there are
some stuff at http://www.pdc.kth.se/~jas/emacs-rfc2554.html.