Re: My Gnus now refuses to send long emails

[Dan Espen]

Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:

> I use Gnus 5.13 under Cygwin 1.5.25 under Windows XP.  For the last few
> days it has refused to send any email longer than about 2500
> characters, whether in the text proper or in an attachment.  Sometimes
> the message is
>
>   smtpmail-send-command: writing to process: no error, SMTP
>
> and sometimes 
>
>   Process SMTP not running.
>
> My Emacs 24.3 tells me that smtpmail-send-command is not documented.
> What is going on?
>
> Note:  I have repeatedly tried to post this query on gnu.emacs.gnus.
> Gnus goes through the motions, but the posting has never appeared.  I
> have had not difficulty posting on other newsgroups, so I am trying this
> one.

I had a Verizon issue show up this summer which was solved by
putting this in my .gnus.el:

(setq smtpmail-auth-supported '(plain login cram-md5))

My symptoms were a bit different though.
The above makes gnus try cram-md5 last.
Verizon stopped working with cram-md5.

-- 
Dan Espen