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Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:

> Once in a while, Gnus will fail in its attempt to send out mail.
> Here's teh trace I got in the message buffer:
>
> open-network-stream: make client process failed: undefined error: 0,
> :name, SMTP, :buffer, *trace of SMTP session to mail.bitstream.net*,
> :host, mail.bitstream.net, :service, 25
>
> Is this a problem with Gnus, with my configuration, or with the mail
> server?

Several Macintosh 10 users has this problem.  It may actually be an OS
bug, or fixed in more recent Emacs versions, I don't recall.