Gnus, smptmail.el and Gmail's SMTP server

[Sebastian Tennant]

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone has got these three working together?

I've followed the instructions found here as best I can, but without
success:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SmtpAuth

I can use Gmail's SMTP server without any problems at all using
IceDove (Debian's unbranded Thunderbird).  I simply provide the
follwoing info and off it goes:

   Server: smtp.googlemail.com
     Port: 465
      SSL: yes
 Username: ********
 Password: ********

but configuring smptmail.el is not so straightforward.

I am setting the following variables accordingly:

 smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.googlemail.com" 465 "*******" "*******"))
 smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.googlemail.com" 465 nil nil))

 (describe-variable 'smtpmail-starttls-credentials)

"Specify STARTTLS keys and certificates for servers.  This is a list
 of four-element list with `servername' (a string), `port' (an
 integer), `key' (a filename) and `certificate' (a filename).  If you
 do not have a certificate/key pair, leave the `key' and `certificate'
 fields as `nil'.  A key/certificate pair is only needed if you want
 to use X.509 client authenticated connections."

Needless to say this doesn't mean much to me.

When I try to send mail with my current configuration, I get the
following SMTP trace:

 220 mx.google.com ESMTP 33sm6293131hue
 EHLO moley.org.
 250-mx.google.com at your service, [xx.xxx.xx.xx]
 250-SIZE 20971520
 250-8BITMIME
 250-STARTTLS
 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
 MAIL FROM:<sebyte@smolny.plus.com> SIZE=285
 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first 33sm6293131hue
 QUIT
 221 2.0.0 mx.google.com closing connection 33sm6293131hue

So no STARTTLS command is being sent despite the following lines in my .gnus:

 (setq starttls-use-gnutls t
       starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls-cli"
       starttls-extra-arguments nil)

and gnutls-cli is definitely installed:

 (shell-command "which gnutls-cli" t)
 /usr/bin/gnutls-cli


Any help much appreciated.

Sebastian