Re: using a smtp server (not sendmail)

["Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com> writes:

> is there any way to get emacs/gnus to use my isp's smtp server directly?
> from what i can find it uses /usr/xxx/sendmail (which in my case is
> provided by qmail). my problem really is that verizon fios outbound smtp
> required authentication and qmail doesn't support that without a
> patch. since outbound isn't an issue (i do use qmail for inbound just
> fine) i thought i could bypass it inside emacs/gnus. only a few symbols
> are found with smtp in them.

from my ~/.xemacs/custom.el

,----[ custom.el ]
| '(message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
| '(smtp-default-server "\"my.smtp.host\"")
| '(ssl-certificate-directory "/home/dieter/certs")
| '(ssl-certificate-verification-policy 1)
| '(tls-process-connection-type t)
`----

from my ~/.authinfo

,----[ authinfo ]
| machine "my.smtp.host" login "my.identity" password "my.passwd"
`----

-Dieter

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