Re: sending mail

[N. Jackson]

At 23:58 -0300 on Tuesday 2014-03-11, Steven Arntson wrote:

> I'm a beginning user of gnus, trying to use it to send emails, with the
> command "m." I compose, and then send with C-c C-c, and it looks like
> it's working, but then the system hangs and times out.

I'm a beginning user of Gnus too, but I do have a couple of ideas about
what might be wrong with your set up.

> ;; My Gnus init
>
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gwene.org"))
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
>                   '(nnmbox ""
>                     (nnmbox-mbox-file "~/MAIL")
>                     (nnmbox-active-file "~/Mail.active")))
> (setq mail-sources '((pop :server "my.usual-server.com" :user 
> "me@mydomain.com")))
>
> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "my.usual-server.com") ; needs to be 
> specified before the (require)
>  (require 'smtpmail)
>  (setq smtpmail-local-domain "mydomain.com")
>  (setq smtpmail-sendto-domain "mydomain.com")
>  (setq user-full-name "My Name")
>  (setq user-mail-address (concat "me@" smtpmail-local-domain))
>  (setq smtpmail-debug-info t) ; only to debug problems

I don't see you telling smtpmail which user account to log in
with. Also, if the SMTP server is on a port other than 25, then I think
you have to specify that too.

On the other hand, maybe it can get that information from your
.authinfo file -- I still haven't figured that out. My password is
certainly being retreived from my .authinfo file, so I don't really see
why everything can't be retrieved from there at the same time!

FWIw, I have this:

(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
      smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
      smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
      smtpmail-smtp-service 587                     ; TCP Port.
      smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil))
      smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 
"my_user_name@gmail.com" nil))
)

I don't seem to need a (require 'sendmail).

For the TLS, I have this:

(setq starttls-use-gnutls t
      starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls-cli"
)

I hope some of this helps!

N.