From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/47027 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: What about smtp passwords? Date: 06 Oct 2002 19:05:19 -0400 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033946090 14220 127.0.0.1 (6 Oct 2002 23:14:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yKbp-0003hE-00 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 01:14:49 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17yKaW-00038o-00; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 18:13:28 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 06 Oct 2002 18:14:10 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA11010 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:13:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 13419 invoked by alias); 6 Oct 2002 23:13:12 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13414 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2002 23:13:11 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 Oct 2002 23:13:11 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17yLMZ-0002ZS-00 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 02:03:07 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209-150-60-85.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1033948987 9765 209.150.60.85 (7 Oct 2002 00:03:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Oct 2002 00:03:07 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47027 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:47027 David Abrahams writes: > David Abrahams writes: > > > Just getting started with Gnus, so I may have completely missed this, > > but... The smtp server I want to use requires a password, and > > whenever I try to send messages to it, I get > > Well, now I'm completely baffled. That clipped message happened > because I tried to send through that server so I could find the error > message, and it suddenly worked! Now, when I start a fresh copy of > emacs and try again, it doesn't work. I get "SMTP protocol error". > > Any help appreciated, thanks Well eventually I helped myself. A new smtpmail.el and netrc.el from the current emacs CVS made it all work. I'm really surprised AUTH=LOGIN support wasn't in an earlier emacs release, though, since various versions of it seem to have been floating around since 2000, at least. -- David Abrahams * Boost Consulting dave@boost-consulting.com * http://www.boost-consulting.com