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Joerg Plate <plate@patterner.de> writes:

> Hello-hello
>
> I'm trying to use STARTTLS for sending eMail.
>
> starttls.el looks for "starttls" but cannot find it
> (because it is not installed), but it does not use
> gnutls-cli (which is installed).
>
> (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.$NAME.de")
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.$NAME.de")
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 587)
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials  '(("smtp.$NAME.de" 587 "user" "password")))
> (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.$NAME.de" 587 nil nil)))
>
> (which, according to the documentation, should work...)
>
> And it works with port 25, so servername, user & password are correct.

What happens when you try to send an e-mail with this configuration?

How do you know gnutls-cli is not used?