Re: Can't send mail with Emacs, can with XEmacs

[Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org>]

Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org> writes:

> Recently I've been trying to use Emacs (21 and 22) but cannot persuade
> Gnus to send mail ....
>
> Postfix coughs up this error message
> ,----
> | Jan 2 13:46:20 beardedwonder postfix/smtp[6316]: 53C86156ED:
> | to=<wistanswick@linuxmail.org>, relay=smtp.eclipse.co.uk[82.153.251
> | .1]:25, delay=0.38, delays=0.07/0.09/0.06/0.15, dsn=4.0.0,
> | status=deferred (host smtp.eclipse.co.uk[82.153.251.1] said: 450
> | <glyn@beardedwonder.millingtons.org>: Sender address rejected: Domain
> | not found (in reply to RCPT TO command))
> `----
>
> Now I understand the message about the domain not being found; what I
> don't understand is why the self-same .gnus file allows me to send mail
> with XEmacs.  Can't see anything in my init.el that would affect this.
>
> A successful mailing with XEmacs/Gnus looks like this in the logs

In case anyone else is seeking a solution to the same problem .....

I found that adjusting $myorigin in postfix's config file did the trick.
But still don't see why Gnus under XEmacs would use the old config and
under Emacs it would not!

atb



Glyn