From: "Emily Jackson" <m5comp@fastmail.fm.munged>
Subject: Re: SMTP Authentication and Non-Standard Ports
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:45:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2oei6dol5.fsf@M5.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9yoei6ftbj.fsf@jpl.org>
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>>>>>> In <m2bre7ktf3.fsf@M5.local> Emily Jackson wrote:
>
>> I normally use Sylpheed to handle my e-mail, but I needed to send a bug
>> report from within Gnus. My ISP requires SMTP authentication and blocks
>> port 25, so I *thought* I had Gnus set up correctly to send e-mail via
>> my Fastmail account:
>
>> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "mail.messagingengine.com")
>> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>> '(("mail.messagingengine.com" 26 "username" "password")))
>> (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials
>> '(("mail.messagingengine.com" 26 nil nil)))
>
>> However, when I tried to send the message, it failed; looking at the
>> error messages I got, it was obvious Gnus was trying to use port 25
>> instead of 26 and was unable to connect.
>
> Changing smtpmail-smtp-service into 26 might help.
Yes, adding (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 26) to my .gnus.el file fixed
the problem. Thanks very much. :-)
Emily
--
"If it seem slow, wait for it; it will surely come, it will not delay."
Emily Jackson
E-mail address altered; reply to m5comp AT fastmail DOT fm
<http://home.hiwaay.net/~emilyj/missjackson.html>
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