Re: Mail Authentication

[gebser]

At 16:44 (UTC-0700) on Thu, 18 Dec 2003 Kevin Rodgers said:

= gebser@speakeasy.net wrote:
= 
= > At 15:47 (UTC-0500) on Thu, 18 Dec 2003 gebser@speakeasy.net said:
= > = At 11:06 (UTC-0700) on Thu, 18 Dec 2003 Kevin Rodgers said:
= > = 
= > = = gebser@speakeasy.net wrote:
= > = = 
= > = = > Finally I got emacs' mail working... to a degree.  I can send mail 
with
= > = = > it, but only to users on the same machine.  If I try to send outside
= > = = > (via my ISP), I get nothing.  That is to say, I know that emacs is
= > = = > connecting to the ISP and handing off the email, but it never gets
= > = = > delivered.  I suspect that the ISP is simply tossing it out due to 
lack
= > = = > of authentication from me.
= > = = 
= > = = 
= > = = What does the *trace of SMTP session to foo* buffer contain (where foo 
is the
= > = = value of smtpmail-smtp-server)?
= > = 
= > = Though I have
= > = 
= > = (smtpmail-debug-info t)
...
= 
= How did you come up with that cruft?  smtpmail-debug-info is a variable,
= not a function.

It's part of 

(custom-set-variables
...
'(smtpmail-debug-info t)
...)

(what Customize put in).

= ...
= 
= > = in my .emacs, it isn't regularly producing the trace.  It has done it 
= > = twice over the past couple of weeks, it seems only for the first time 
= > = after emacs is loaded.  Do I have to exit and then (re)start emacs each 
= > = time I want the trace output?
= 
= The entire SMTP dialog is recorded in the *trace of SMTP session to ...*
= buffer.  But you have to explicitly select it with `C-x b' right after
= you send your message in order to see its contents.

Right.  In the *Buffer List*.  And that's where it's not showing up.  I
even do (setq smtpmail-debug-info t) in *scratch, send the mail, then do
C-x b, and there's still no session info.