From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54481 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Tessone Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: trouble with smtp and gnus Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:33:58 -0600 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067304840 16062 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 01:34:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 01:34:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3022@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 28 02:33:58 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEIkA-0003IH-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 02:33:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AEIjt-0005XK-00; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:33:41 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AEIjp-0005XF-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:33:37 -0600 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (pix-64-107-193-233.knox.edu [64.107.193.233]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA0643A0050 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:33:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9S1Xw7L011985 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:33:58 -0600 Original-Received: (from ctessone@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h9S1Xw0C011983; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:33:58 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: ctessone set sender to tessone@polyglut.net using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54481 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54481 Hi folks, Due to some idiocy involve my MTA, I can no longer rely on sendmail on my local machine. Therefore, I set out to make Gnus send email via SMTP. There are problems. I have followed every recipe I can find on the net, all of which involve combinations of loading smtpmail, setting various variables, and setting send-mail-function and message-send-mail-function to smtpmail-send-it. Here is one such recipe I found: ;; ;; Want to use smtp instead of sendmail. ;; (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) (defvar smtpmail-default-smtp-server "mail") (defvar smtpmail-smtp-service "smtp") (defvar smtpmail-local-domain "my.domain.com") (defvar smtpmail-debug-info t) (load-library "smtpmail") (defvar smtpmail-code-conv-from nil) (defvar user-full-name "Donald Hunter") (setq user-mail-address "dhunter@my.domain.com") ;; ;; Want to use message.el instead of mail.el ;; (define-key global-map [(control x) m] 'message-mail) (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) The problem is, this doesn't work if I kill sendmail on my machine. Instead, messages I send get queued in /var/spool/clientmqueue and are not sent until I start up sendmail again. This leads me to believe Gnus is completely ignoring me and using sendmail anyway. Does anyone have any insight? Please help! For reference, I'm running Gnus 5.10.2 under XEmacs 21.4p2 on YellowDog Linux 3.0. SuperCite and BBDB are enabled on my Gnus run, and I can generate debugging information if it's necessary and someone tells me how. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher A. Tessone Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois BA Student, Russian and Mathematics http://www.polyglut.net/