Re: smtpmail help

["dsoliver@earthlink.net" <dsoliver@earthlink.net>]

Well, I erased and reloaded my smtpmail.el, starttls, and gnutls files.
That seemed to fix my first problem. I recompiled my .emacs file. Now I
can use my smtpauth.earthlink.net server. The root of my problem was in
changing from RedHat to Slackware, I didn't double check my install
locations, so I had stuff spread all over the place.

Now, I still have my own email being rejected problem when sent from
emacs. I'm not too worried about that though. Thanks for your help,
Tim. -- Douglas
dsoliver@earthlink.net wrote:
> Tim, you're right, I'm sure. I played with changing my port number from
> 25 to 465 and 587 to use smtpauth. Things made it a little further, but
> then I got the turn on smtp authorization message. I thought that's
> what I had already done. Do you think I have a bad or old program, or
> just set it up incorrectly? Do I have to turn on those features
> manually?
>
> Here's another conundrum: when I email myself (using the charter smtp
> server) my earthlink spam filter, which filters out all messages coming
> from sources not in my addressbook (kept online at ELnk), my own email
> is seen as spam, even though my address is correct in the email and in
> my address book. If I email anyone else, they get the message and
> return it to me just using their email return function, which uses my
> email address as it was received. That returned email comes to me fine.
> It's only filtered if I send it to myself. I can't figure that out.
>
> At least I can now send email from Emacs. None of my other email
> clients have had these problems. That's why I've been frustrated. Right
> now I'm sending this through Thunderbird.
>
> Thanks - - Douglas
> Tim X wrote:
> > "dsoliver@earthlink.net" <dsoliver@earthlink.net> writes:
> >
> > > Well, I changed (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.earthlink.net") to
> > > (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.charter.net"), and everything is
> > > working ok now. My email account is with Earthlink, so I have always
> > > used their smtp server; however, my ISP cable account is with Charter,
> > > so I just switched to their smtp server. Is there a way I could use
> > > earthlink's again without being kicked out? I'm not sure what I would
> > > add to my .emacs file or even if it's possible. My concern is if I
> > > needed to switch to my dial up earthlink account. Of course I could
> > > just change back to Elnk from Chrtr.
> > >
> >
> > Going by the error message in your earlier mail and from what you
> > outline above, I suspect there is nothing you can do. What is likely
> > happening is that earthlink has configured their smtp server to only
> > accept mail for relaying from addresses wtihin their domain to prevent
> > spammers from using their mail server as a relay.
> >
> > The only possible solution I can think of is if earthlink provides an
> > authenticated gateway for using their mail server. This would require
> > smtpmail to login into the earthlink server using your earthlink
> > username and password. I don't know if smtpmail supports this.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > --
> > Tim Cross
> > The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is
> > to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you
> > really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!