From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4237 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michiel Buddingh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Sending mail fails silently Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:02:21 +0100 Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Message-ID: <86y8hd92qa.fsf@t-91-39.athome.tue.nl> References: <86hdo4sku4.fsf@t-91-39.athome.tue.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670209 22431 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:16:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:16:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:27 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news2.telebyte.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeeder.wxs.nl!surfnet.nl!news.tue.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: t-91-39.athome.tue.nl Original-X-Trace: news.tue.nl 1099836079 12994 131.155.226.39 (7 Nov 2004 14:01:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@tue.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:01:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: T-gnus/6.16.2 (based on Gnus v5.10.2) (revision 02) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZVxlA9W8Tn/OMgXbZKfZi6udX50= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4378 Original-Lines: 14 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4378 Tue Jan 17 17:33:27 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4237 Archived-At: Tim McNamara writes: > Can't that be handled through an .authinfo file? My ISPs NNTP server > requires authorization and eventually so will the SMTP server. My > .authinfo contains: > > machine news.iphouse.com login timmcn@bitstream.net password xxxxxxxxx > > and I assume the syntax for SMTP would be similar How would the authinfo file help if smtpmail.el doesn't know how to do authentication? cheers, Michiel