Re: Gnus (smtpmail/nnimap) on NT without Cygwin?

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>
>> David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:
>>
>>> Does anyone know what I need to install to get smtpmail and nnimap to
>>> work without Cygwin?
>>>
>>> The work I'm doing for a client required me to install their special
>>> version of Cygwin, which I foolishly did alongside my existing one.
>>> Thereafter, my SMTP mail sending began to fail.  Despite the fact that
>>> I have smtp-debug-info set to t, I get no *trace of ...* buffer.  All
>>> I see is (in *Messages*):
>>>
>>>   Sending...
>>>   Sending via mail...
>>>   message-send-mail-with-sendmail: Sending...failed with exit value 1
>>>
>>> So I decided to rebuild emacs without cygwin, and actually managed to
>>> figure out how to use MinGW and get an emacs with image support on NT!
>>> Fantastic!
>>>
>>> But smtpmail still fails in the same way.
>>
>> Solved; it looks like my exim got updated and it was looking for an
>> executable with the wrong version number.  I didn't see an error
>> message that gave me a clue about the problem, though, until I went
>> into my nndraft:queue group and tried to send all messages.  Maybe the
>> regular mail sending process could be fixed to yield better error
>> messages.
>
> Considering the error message (...mail-with-SENDMAIL...) it looks as
> if you are using sendmail.el rather than smtpmail.el.  Sendmail.el
> require a local MTA as external binary, but smtpmail.el will talk
> directly to your outbound mail server.

Yeah, long-since-forgotten configuration change on my part.  I need
the MTA because Gnus sends synchronously and my SMTP server is
slow/unresponsive.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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