Can't send mail with Emacs, can with XEmacs

Can't send mail with Emacs, can with XEmacs

[Glyn Millington]

A happy new year to you all!


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

,----
| Jan 2 16:59:31 beardedwonder postfix/smtp[4942]: 452A51C7D9:
| to=<wistanswick@linuxmail.org>, relay=smtp.eclipse.co.uk[82.153.251
| .1]:25, delay=0.41, delays=0.17/0.03/0.07/0.14, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent
| (250 Ok: queued as BE492C0748)
`----

This was Oort Gnus.

Can anyone suggest where I might begin on this? Do Emacs and XEmacs have
different defaults for certain variables?

thanks for any light you can bring!

atb





Glyn

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

[Glyn Millington]

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

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

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Jan 03 2007, Glyn Millington wrote:

> 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
>
> ,----
> | Jan 2 16:59:31 beardedwonder postfix/smtp[4942]: 452A51C7D9:
> | to=<wistanswick@linuxmail.org>, relay=smtp.eclipse.co.uk[82.153.251
> | .1]:25, delay=0.41, delays=0.17/0.03/0.07/0.14, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent
> | (250 Ok: queued as BE492C0748)
> `----
>
> This was Oort Gnus.
>
> Can anyone suggest where I might begin on this? Do Emacs and XEmacs have
> different defaults for certain variables?

Possible.  Maybe `user-mail-address'.

Do I understand correctly, that <glyn@beardedwonder.millingtons.org>
is the problem when using Emacs?  If so, try to find out which
variable has this value:
M-x apropos-value RET glyn@beardedwonder.millingtons.org RET

Maybe setting `user-mail-address' or `message-sendmail-envelope-from'
should solve the problem:

,----[ (info "(message)Mail Variables") ]
| `message-sendmail-envelope-from'
|      When `message-sendmail-f-is-evil' is `nil', this specifies the
|      address to use in the SMTP envelope.  If it is `nil', use
|      `user-mail-address'.  If it is the symbol `header', use the `From'
|      header of the message.
`----

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

[Glyn Millington]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 03 2007, Glyn Millington wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> ,----
>> | Jan 2 16:59:31 beardedwonder postfix/smtp[4942]: 452A51C7D9:
>> | to=<wistanswick@linuxmail.org>, relay=smtp.eclipse.co.uk[82.153.251
>> | .1]:25, delay=0.41, delays=0.17/0.03/0.07/0.14, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent
>> | (250 Ok: queued as BE492C0748)
>> `----
>>
>> This was Oort Gnus.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest where I might begin on this? Do Emacs and XEmacs have
>> different defaults for certain variables?
>
> Possible.  Maybe `user-mail-address'.
>
> Do I understand correctly, that <glyn@beardedwonder.millingtons.org>
> is the problem when using Emacs?  If so, try to find out which
> variable has this value:
> M-x apropos-value RET glyn@beardedwonder.millingtons.org RET

Many thanks!

atb

Glyn