Re: SMTP with Gnus

[lrnr <ns@nospam.com>]

>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

    Simon> zrr <beijing_2008_gold@yahoo.com.cn> writes:
    >> lrnr <ns@nospam.com> writes:
    >> 
    >> Hi,
    >> 
    >> Here is my configuration in the .gnus.el
    >> 
    >> (load "smtpmail") (setq smtpmail-smtp-server
    >> "smtp.mail.yahoo.com.cn") (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server
    >> "smtp.mail.yahoo.com.cn") (setq send-mail-function
    >> 'smtpmail-send-it) (setq message-send-mail-function
    >> 'smtpmail-send-it) (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 25) (setq
    >> smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.mail.yahoo.com.cn" 25
    >> "account_name" "xxxxxxxxxxx"))) ^^^^^^^^^^^^without @yahoo.xxx

    Simon> Looks good.  Did you really load the correct smtpmail.el?  If
    Simon> you do C-h v smtpmail-auth-credentials RET, do you see an
    Simon> explanation for the variable?

Hi Simon, thanks for your help,

As I already explained to "zrr", my problem was that I was setting my
smtpmail-auth-credentials with double quotes around the port number,
like this:

  (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
        '(("smtp" "25" "username" nil)))

Removing the double quotes around the number 25 solves the
problem.

On your page http://josefsson.org/smtpmail.html#Authentication you have
the following example:

;; Authenticate using this username and password against my server.
(setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
     '(("hostname" "port" "username" "password")))

So I just took these lines and substituted my values for the strings,
that is way I put the port number in double quotes.


Thanks
-- 
lrnr