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From: Wu XiaoGuang <xgwu@linux.net.cn>
Subject: Re: questions re sendmail vs smtpmail.el
Date: 13 Oct 2002 17:54:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bs5yvf3s.fsf@linux.net.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39n0pjzd5m.fsf@qiuranke.phony.washington.edu>


On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 12:10:29 -0700, Michael Na Li wrote:

> On 12 Oct 2002, Wu XiaoGuang said:
>> 
>> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 03:35:22 -0700, Michael Na Li wrote:
>> 
>> > I use smtp to send emails so I disabled the sendmail service on
>> my > laptop running RedHat 7.3 and every things worked as expected.
>> Now > after I've upgraded from 7.3 to 8.0.  I found my outgoing
>> emails > (sent from Gnus) simply disappeared!  I can still use
>> Mozilla Mail > to send emails however because I've configured it to
>> use smtp.
>> 
>> Are you using the newer version of smtpmail.el from:
>> http://www.josefsson.org/emacs-rfc2554.html
>> 

> I justed downloaded the cvs version of smtpmail.el (and sendmail.el
> which defines a new function mail-envelop-from) and sending emails
> via smtp seems to be working.

> I have smtpmail-debug-info set to t before but I didn't any tracing
> message before I upgrade so smtp wasn't used at all for some reason.

> By the way smtpmail.el says I need set smtpmail-default-smtp-server
> but I found that I had to set smtpmail-smtp-server instead.

Yes, when I use Emacs 21.1 in MDL 8.2, there is no need to set the
smtpmail-smtp-server, but in woody (Emacs 21.2), I have to set the
additional variable. 
I'm also curious.

> Now that I've got smtpmail working I might go back and use sendmail
> instead ;-) The question is, does sendmail have any advantage versus
> smtpmail in terms of speed?

> Michael


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       reply	other threads:[~2002-10-13  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <87adljzypc.fsf@linux.net.cn>
     [not found]   ` <39n0pjzd5m.fsf@qiuranke.phony.washington.edu>
2002-10-13  9:54     ` Wu XiaoGuang [this message]
     [not found]     ` <d6qewgx8.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de>
2002-10-14  2:06       ` Ian Zimmerman
2002-10-16  9:45       ` Kai Großjohann

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