From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60833 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus (smtpmail/nnimap) on NT without Cygwin? Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:44:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125323334 12356 80.91.229.2 (29 Aug 2005 13:48:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9365=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 29 15:48:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9jx1-00046n-1W for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:45:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E9jwy-0005ah-00 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:45:24 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E9jwq-0005aX-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:45:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E9jwm-0007Ed-6w for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:45:12 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.61]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E9jwj-0006qR-00 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:45:09 +0200 Original-Received: from 146-115-127-135.c3-0.smr-ubr2.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO i9300.boost-consulting.com) ([146.115.127.135]) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 29 Aug 2005 09:45:08 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.96,149,1122868800"; d="scan'208"; a="75538148:sNHT21427656" Original-Received: from dave by i9300.boost-consulting.com with local (Exim 4.52) id ILZKTE-0002X4-2L; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:44:02 -0400 Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:27:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60833 Archived-At: Simon Josefsson writes: > David Abrahams writes: > >> David Abrahams 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 www.boost-consulting.com