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Charles Collicutt <charles.collicutt@holyblasphemy.org> writes:

> "Emily Jackson" <m5comp@fastmail.fm.munged> writes:
>> To use TLS you need to have either the starttls command-line tool
>> (available from <ftp://ftp.opaopa.org/pub/elisp/starttls-0.9.tar.gz>) or
>> gnutls (can be installed via fink [if you use fink]) installed. I have
>> the former installed and TLS works for me (at least it did the last time
>
> I have GnuTLS installed and I just installed starttls-0.9 as well for
> good measure. Still no joy though.
>
> I just tried switching to a different SMTP server and found that Gnus
> did not try to authenticate at all. My normal SMTP server is the same
> server that I retrieve my mail from so it has an entry in my .authinfo
> file, evidently Gnus was only authenticating because of that.
>
> smtpmail-auth-credentials and smtpmail-starttls-credentials both seem to
> be completely ignored. I checked smtpmail.el and I do have a version
> that claims to use those variables (as I'd expect, since they are
> documented in the Info file.)
>
> Thank you very much for your help but I still can't work out what is
> going wrong. Oh well.

Did you load the correct smtpmail.el?  I'd guess that you ended up
loading some older version of it.

Try

(load "~/lisp/smtpmail.el")

or something, with a specific path.