Re: smtpmail, starttls authentication

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "PL" == Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> writes:

>>>>> "HQ" == Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

  HQ> Possibly only gmail smtp related.

  HQ> Get latest GNUS from CVS. Google for it. Although I notice that
  HQ> I'm using 0.4. Hmm.

  HQ> You are already using 22.0.50 I see. Me too : debian snapshot.

  HQ> It should work. Here is my relevant .gnus.el :

  HQ> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it) (setq
  HQ> smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com") (setq
  HQ> smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com") (setq
  HQ> smtpmail-smtp-service 587)

  HQ> And google up fs-change-smtp : it includes the tls negotiation
  HQ> stuff too.

  PL> I hadn't realised that you had to set the port number separately
  PL> (it was already in smtpmail-auth-credentials). So, now gnus is
  PL> trying to use starttls (or so it tells me), but the system just
  PL> hangs on connection.

  PL> I'm trying to use cygwin gnutls with NT Emacs -- this work fine
  PL> for openssl and IMAP support.

  PL> Any more suggestions?


So the practical upshot is that if I set neither
smtpmail-auth-credentials nor smtpmail-starttls-credentials, then the
I get a protocol failure, with the system demanding
authentication. If, on the other hand, I set just auth-credentials
then I get asked for a password. But then the system fails. Finally,
if I set starttls-credentials, then the emacs appears to use starttls
(based on the message buffer), but then hangs. 

Very painful!

Phil