Re: Multiple SMTP servers with Gnus?

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I currently have one SMTP server I talk to with Gnus, and another
> account with a web-mail interface that also supports SMTP. I'm
> considering just using Gnus for both, but I was wondering what the
> canonical method was for configuring this? gnus-posting-styles would
> theoretically fit, but I can't see any way to set any of the smtpmail
> variables in a posting style.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert
>

My preferred way is msmtp. There is some junk in the msmtp-change-smtp
function below but its all so hairy to set up I wont touch it anymore ;)

It bases the msmtp account to use on the from address.

Hope it suits.

,----
| msmtp-name-list is a variable defined in `rgr-misc.gpg'.
| Its value is
| ("root" "richardriley" "riley" "shamrock")
`----

,----
|  ;; Select the correct smtp server based on the from address.
|   (defun msmtp-account (&optional def)
|     (let* ((from
|             (save-restriction
|               (message-narrow-to-headers)
|               (message-fetch-field "From")))
|            (account (if from (catch 'match
|                                (dolist (element msmtp-name-list)
|                                  ;; (message (format "smpt chosen is %s" element))
|                                  (when (string-match (format ".*%s.*" element) from)
|                                    (throw 'match element)))) nil)))
|       (if account account (if def def "default"))))
| 
|   (defun msmtp-change-smtp ()
|     (setq sendmail-program "/usr/bin/msmtp")
|     (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.googlemail.com" 587 nil nil)))
|     (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.googlemail.com")
|     (setq message-sendmail-envelope-from 'header)
|     (if (message-mail-p)
|         (setq message-sendmail-extra-arguments (list "-a" (msmtp-account "default")))))
|   (add-hook 'message-send-hook 'msmtp-change-smtp)
| 
|  
`----


Where my .msmtprc file is of the form

,----
| defaults
| host smtp.gmail.com
| port 587
| auth on
| tls on
| tls_certcheck off
| logfile /tmp/msmtp.log
| 
| account riley
| user rileyrg@googlemail.com
| password *****
| from rileyrg@googlemail.com
| 
| account richardriley
| host smtp.richardriley.net
| port 25
| user rgr
| password **************
| from rgr@richardriley.com
| 
| account shamrock
| port 25
| user shamrockirishbar
| password ********
| from shamrock@shamrockirishbar.com
| 
`----

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