From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/3249 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: gnus requires to set 'smtpmail-smtp-server' Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:26:04 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Message-ID: References: <871xrjxpmt.fsf@speakeasy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138669436 18264 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:03:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:31:55 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!730eac0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJFBMVEWQcmwjGBYIAQK3l5PYwb2/ paGVgn765uSwh4TsxsJvVVHVrKugwieXAAADO0lEQVR4nE2UwYvbVhCHx4Sojk4rNy3BN+mQw97K W7mq91h5jdElID+6iS5S3ArjaxeE6UUgEI/kKhAPXaxN2MLrURLUff9cZ+SkdG6a7838Zp5mHvzu +qNl/zP6hsSyrJnj2E/pjqMxlqbQOvYMEkV+Z66UMlzOQ+alYDq2BUuWoN9WqrXm00gPIRNgzpwZ 3O3eUQAAKPW0DTQPBeVy4C6dYMBzHYUl7Lb+EMawh4ljwx36ne9rqUPmRhvZLUylUMSBdyg9+5wh EG4vq79zFFMoAkvl2PaPWcPEvuhlEMYILPXowM+LR/u6PgYeQHGWg0dFtPPWgTfGzHmdVYu2PT3r ZZebMC1KZTnwHrVfPrz56wds46YJczV19ZC3I7B/7Qr3oMzfztrLT1MW6fsLuI4GdwjFRcIQgvHw w4zAtxu/1zo6y4pKwCIYKwnYL2SltfallFUYY7lqJ8pHBNdr2WjdS1lncgC8KOsUpwS+y6TsffJn MsiFMC0kBL5BsCF/fay6fC8WZnu1R2CvsyOml/U/JxksqKbSVARe409GUtUT6+M9VRRxDwi8HEEV yOW8X1qfPB71AxMI/rxE6HP19pg4V4xzrbmYQPLLBQRa+k0+e3XPI2wqTCBZI5Bji1p75sf7W4zQ XQIHmjBZ+TqggyIUt3Ri+ADxmMn3qXvdiXwajWAJKYKHMzVSDVHopUXUB/+BakMyqB96orj1Az3w Jewwk19nx142A2NM4KxcQLrOHnwcBq2bThScCYYSHEFcZ3+EGN4xMjf0GJbFGVa1zpponcmmwzSi cD2Bw8DYYQRjjw12IaYFS/ccazjAYZ2t6rF5agNnoUwLJsoJaQTZF6Bp3lLYsTJtKZUkUA20TQKU Ac+8Eh4pFWXKms5DcZzcE0xFbM7gcM42dF1NlxeCpupkTktQI6gIVF25xxS0cgbtGhzeNlE9ghyE iCGNlYFDh+Cn1XYEAytxbmEfnwygNUhuAh9FHga8pnQq0hSB2RJ4PvibalOt8FEo8VVAo23DNXhy tysf/wFufjz6UR4fC3h/VWxXfMVCURpgXOrFAATzHV9x7i3E1+P0eiBILOPGDwa2KFPTVKN/BP8C vna5gvPAc7oAAAAASUVORK5CYII= X-Face: 05fn[C<5\8+7~D1QY%*@5@p7q&BiQ%F"0*vMR{G$:wv#_,yT,`7*@]z.PISw(PbV6{XSt4I ^*TT29PIj{lo:bO*2QtO;',Nk{zx}YDp3T3FSGk2Lee32XLpqMz|q7N~:9&G&Cr883o6krS-x(UIpc @~=0/@]0CE}~w=8p Anupam Kapoor writes: > hi all, > > i am running 'Gnus v5.10.2' on a cvs emacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2)and > have the following lines in my .gnus: > > (setq sendmail-program "/usr/sbin/ssmtp") > (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) > (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) > (setq user-mail-address real-mail-address) > > however, if i have this > (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "mail.speakeasy.net") > > in my .gnus everything works fine. > > since i want to use 'ssmtp' to send mail, i am not sure why the > 'smtpmail-smtp-server' variable is required. > > any ideas ? Can you send mail without Gnus by either using 'C-x m' or another MUA (mutt, mozilla)? If you cant send mail with another MUA with ssmtp then you have not properly configured your ssmtp.conf file. There should be a '/usr/sbin/sendmail' alias to /usr/sbin/ssmtp (or wherever it's located) which should more than likely fix your problem without the need of using the '(setq ... )' lines you posted above within your ~/.gnus. -- LCC