From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Sending email from Windows Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017856814 3059 127.0.0.1 (3 Apr 2002 18:00:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16sp3N-0000n6-00 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 20:00:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16sp3G-0002JD-00; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 13:00:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rutgers.edu ([165.230.4.76] helo=rutgers.rutgers.edu) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16sp0j-0001zr-00 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 12:57:29 -0500 Original-Received: from troy.btinternet.com ([217.32.252.51]) by rutgers.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22893 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:57:24 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from [217.32.254.46] (helo=paris.btinternet.com) by seriphos.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16sozp-00014z-1l for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:56:33 +0100 Original-Received: from news by paris.btinternet.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16sozp-0001KK-1M for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:56:33 +0100 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: host62-7-42-138.in-addr.btopenworld.com Original-X-Trace: paris.btinternet.com 1017856593 1115 62.7.42.138 (3 Apr 2002 17:56:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:56:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:382 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:382 elf@ee.ryerson.ca (Luis Fernandes) writes: > I cannot send mail from Emacs running under Windows XP connected via > a PPP dialup connection (this is a game machine; installing GNU/Linux > on it would mean that I would have to do work at home). Use customize to change your mail sending options to use "smtpmail-send-it" instead of "sendmail-send-it", and set the other smtpmail options appropriately for your ISP. > When I select either Rmail or Sendmail (from the menu) to send email, > Emacs complains that a program called 'fakemail' is not found. > > I don't know whether this is a bug (it's supposed to work, but > doesn't) or not (it's not suposed to work). This is deliberate. fakemail never worked on Windows, so by installing it in previous releases we were just fooling users into thinking they could send mail from Emacs out of the box, since it would fail silently. -- Jason Rumney