Re: [h-e-w] sendmail.el issues with gnus in 21.3

[Chris McMahan]

I'm coming in late in this thread, but I have a version of SMTP.el
that accepts authentication for those mail servers that require
it. I've used it in the past, but not recently. If you would like it,
I'd be happy to send a copy.

 - Chris McMahan

Michael R. Wolf writes:
>Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I'm facing a peculiar problem with the sendmail.el bundled with 21.3
>>> Ntemacs.   If I use oort 0.24 with the one which came packaged in
>>> NTemacs fullbin to send a mail, I get 454 client not authenticated
>>
>> So your SMTP server requires authentication.
>
>Mine, too. I have to use a phone line to send mail (SMTP) when I'm not
>at home, even if I'm in a wireless cafe where I can access the
>internet (NNTP and POP). What a strange way to use gnus, which I
>orignianally started using to *integrate* and *unify* NNTP, POP, and
>SMTP.
>
>[...]
>
>>> Right now, mail works but using a sendmail.el version which is not the
>>> one bundled with 21.3
>>
>> So use that version. But rather than copy it over the top of the 21.3
>> one, put it in emacs-21.3/site-lisp/. That way you will remember that
>> it was something you downloaded seperately, and it will be easier to
>> find it and use it again in 21.4 if you still need it.
>
>When you get this to work, could you report back to the group the
>following versions
>
>    emacs
>    gnus
>    sendmail.el
>    smtpmail.el
>
>and any configurations you needed to do to get authentication working
>over SMTP?
>
>I would really appreciate it.
>
>Thanks,
>Michael Wolf
>
>-- 
>Michael R. Wolf
>    All mammals learn by playing!
>        address@hidden
>
>

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