From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2118 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Keith O'Connell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Can't mail out reliably Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:34:48 GMT Organization: is a wonderful thing. Message-ID: <87k7fu1vrb.fsf@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> References: <87ptpn9e45.fsf@smtp.blueyonder.co.uk> <84bs16hnpn.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668669 14005 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:51:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:12 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-text.cableinet.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Sender: keith@aragorn Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Attribution: kroc X-Home-Page: http://www.galadriel.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.195.231.6 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk Original-X-Trace: news-text.cableinet.net 1045776888 80.195.231.6 (Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:34:48 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:34:48 GMT Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2258 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2258 Tue Jan 17 17:30:12 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2118 Archived-At: >>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann writes: >> What is the correct way to inform Gnus that the mail-out host >> is "smtp.blueyonder.co.uk". Kai> By default, Gnus invokes sendmail to send the mail. (Most Kai> other MTAs provide a program called sendmail for Kai> compatibility reasons.) That being the case, sylpheed also makes a call to "sendmail" which is a reference to exim on my system and the mail gets out fine. Any other thoughts on what this problem might be down to? I am convinced it is something of the "idiot-user" variety if only a light can be shone on it! :-) -- Keith. [Debian Woody & GNU Emacs 21.2.1 - Gnus v5.9.0]