From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/30820 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Cohen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: sending mail via VTCP/Secure Date: 10 May 2000 16:09:00 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035167302 10480 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D68D051F for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 19:11:25 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAB30068; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:11:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 10 May 2000 18:09:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10010 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:09:45 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from nexus.webmethods.com (gw1.webmethods.com [208.234.160.254]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE95D051F for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 19:10:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from DCOHEN ([10.5.10.26]) by nexus.webmethods.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02893 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 19:09:08 -0400 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 72 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.5 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30820 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:30820 Hello all, My question is not specific to gnus. I apologize for asking it here, but I expect there's enough expertise out there to answer this one quickly and easily. My problem is with sending mail from emacs. Normally, this works fine for me. But recently my company started to use a product called VTCP/Secure. This product sets up a virtual private network between our SMTP server and remote sites. So, when I'm connecting from home, I can't access our smtp server unless I'm running the VTCP/Secure client, called VSClient. This is supposed to give me access to the SMTP server as if I were on a lan, but as you probably guessed, it doesn't work. Why we don't use ssh I have no idea. Instead, when I send mail, emacs shows me "sending..." in the minibuffer, but it never returns. I wait and wait, and eventually I quit the operation, which I must do to get emacs responding again. Meanwhile, the VSClient log indicates that a connection was made, a small amount of data was exchanged, then the connection terminated. The amount of data is clearly not enough to be the entire email. 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? Some more information that may be relevant: When connected normally (at the office, not using VSClient), I have no trouble sending mail. When connected via VSClient, my nnimap backend to gnus works fine. So I can read mail, but not send. The imap server is the same machine as the smtp server. I can also use ange-ftp over VSClient. When connected via VSClient, MS Outlook can send mail, while emacs can't. Sad but true. Can you see why I want to get to the bottom of this? I'm running emacs on NT 4. Gnu Emacs 20.5.1. Gnus 5.8.4. Below the relevant smtp settings from my .emacs. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Dave ;;;; Sending mail (setq user-full-name "Dave Cohen") (setq user-mail-address "dnc@bigfoot.com") (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "mail.company.com") (setq smtpmail-local-domain nil) (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) ;; This causes myself to be BCCed on all mail I send. (setq mail-self-blind t) (load-library "smtpmail") (setq send-mail-function 'feedmail-send-it) (autoload 'feedmail-send-it "feedmail") (autoload 'feedmail-run-the-queue "feedmail") (setq feedmail-buffer-eating-function 'feedmail-buffer-to-smtpmail) (setq feedmail-enable-queue t) ; optional (setq feedmail-queue-chatty t) ; optional ;; from .gnus (setq gnus-post-method 'current) (setq message-interactive t) ;; wait for success (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)