From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4243 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Emily Jackson" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: SMTP Authentication and Non-Standard Ports Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:45:42 -0600 Organization: This, That, and Quite a Bit of the Other Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670213 22453 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:16:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:16:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:27 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 03:45:42 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: R=yB8),QN9C8p6tPi=)A2lf\nC%9T_7A#69"g[d8jH#'N$|SWLpYKc User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n8jkOPk/bf5MiVNgGRgtgeoXRtA= Original-X-Trace: sv3-Ybk+EY0209r/impX5sCBVb7OxoKRRDtIidyKIYzZ+BD33clA9mrY+OWI+AEPOaX0fMxekEYvZe0exOs!U9lh9l85XdI0GjM8V9l46d63FvHyZjL65q4TBRVKly9aEw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.20 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4384 Original-Lines: 31 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4384 Tue Jan 17 17:33:27 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4243 Archived-At: Katsumi Yamaoka writes: >>>>>> In 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