From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79427 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: prompt for smtp Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:55:07 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <0mfwmfww7r.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> <87tyavg01t.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310212513 21085 80.91.229.12 (9 Jul 2011 11:55:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 11:55:13 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27723@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jul 09 13:55:09 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfW7p-0007gD-7T for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:55:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QfW7N-0002ep-Gr; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:54:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QfW7L-0002ea-W7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:54:39 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QfW7K-0008G8-M9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:54:39 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QfW7H-0000aA-7B for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:54:35 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfW7H-0007QJ-4Y for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:54:35 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:54:35 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:54:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xroTm+jpCD1GalqeNdR5KcmbJRI= X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79427 Archived-At: lee writes: > Richard Riley writes: > >> Hi, can someone point me to the info I need to get latest gnus working : >> it prompts me for smtp server when I send. I use local exim4 configured >> to use a smart host. entering nothing or localhost both cause gnus to >> hang there doing nothing. > > (setq send-mail-function 'sendmail-send-it) > > in ~/.emacs. I've removed what the customise stuff put into emacs > (which meant the same anyway). It looks like it's emacs who's asking, > not gnus. Yes, I upgraded bzr emacs. It should have some form of tab completion if possible to at least hint what its looking for. thanks!