From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1326 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wu XiaoGuang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: questions re sendmail vs smtpmail.el Date: 13 Oct 2002 17:54:15 +0800 Organization: Gnus at Emacs dot GNU Message-ID: <87bs5yvf3s.fsf@linux.net.cn> References: <87adljzypc.fsf@linux.net.cn> <39n0pjzd5m.fsf@qiuranke.phony.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668121 10820 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:42:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:59 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.teledanmark.no!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed.eunet.at!newsfeed.austria.eu.net!anon.lcs.mit.edu!nym.alias.net!mail2news Original-Sender: xgwu@debian.no.domain.specified Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1466 Original-Lines: 50 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1466 Tue Jan 17 17:28:59 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1326 Archived-At: 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com