Sending email from Windows

Sending email from Windows

[Luis Fernandes]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2001-10-22 on buffy
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

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). 

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).


Recent input:
i n p u t SPC M-q C-x C-s <menu-bar> <tools> <compose-mail> 
e l f @ e e . r y e r s o n . c a <down> t e s t <down> 
C-a C-k C-k C-c C-c C-x C-b <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <help-echo> <double-down-mouse-1> <double-mouse-1> 
<help-echo> <down-mouse-2> <mouse-2> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<tools> <rmail> <menu-bar> <mail> <mail> m e SPC <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> e l f @ e e . r y e r s o n 
. c a <down> f o o <down> C-a C-k C-k <down> C-c C-c 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-b
ug>

Recent messages:
Loading rmail...done
(New file)
Counting messages...done

(No new mail has arrived)
Fill column set to 69 (was 70)
Auto save file for draft message exists; consider M-x mail-recover
Sending...
apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, fakemail
Loading emacsbug...done

Re: Sending email from Windows

[Jason Rumney]

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