Re: SMTP with Gnus

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

lrnr <ns@nospam.com> writes:

> Hi Simon, thanks for your help,
>
> As I already explained to "zrr", my problem was that I was setting my
> smtpmail-auth-credentials with double quotes around the port number,
> like this:
>
>   (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>         '(("smtp" "25" "username" nil)))
>
> Removing the double quotes around the number 25 solves the
> problem.
>
> On your page http://josefsson.org/smtpmail.html#Authentication you have
> the following example:
>
> ;; Authenticate using this username and password against my server.
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>      '(("hostname" "port" "username" "password")))
>
> So I just took these lines and substituted my values for the strings,
> that is way I put the port number in double quotes.

The page now read:

     ;; Authenticate using this username and password against my server.
     (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
           '(("HOSTNAME" "PORT" "USERNAME" "PASSWORD")))

     ;; Note that if PORT is an integer, you must not quote it as a
     ;; string.  Normally PORT should be the integer 25, and the example
     ;; become:
     (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
           '(("HOSTNAME" 25 "USERNAME" "PASSWORD")))

     ;; Use STARTTLS without authentication against the server.
     (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials
           '(("HOSTNAME" "PORT" nil nil)))

Thanks.