From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help setting up POP3 email (rmail) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:11:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87egc2u7it.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87wppvc52x.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87d1rmstxe.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456283535 28374 80.91.229.3 (24 Feb 2016 03:12:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 03:12:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 24 04:12:05 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aYPrx-0005zf-3j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:12:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYPrw-0004D5-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:12:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55451) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYPri-0004Cj-F2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:11:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYPrf-0005Nq-6z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aYPrf-0005Nj-0z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:11:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aYPrd-0005iG-CL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:11:45 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-170.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:11:45 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-170.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2016 04:11:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 55 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-170.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+kfw04DZ0EIDtH4vjxPgicSZtlA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109282 Archived-At: Nick Dokos writes: >> Many ISP prefer you to use port 587 for outgoing >> emails rather than port 25, which was the >> traditional port. That's why I used "587" above in >> .authinfo and smtpmail-smtp-service. If your ISP is >> a traditionalist and prefers 25 then replace those >> numbers with 25. > > And then there's Verizon which uses 465. ... why do they do that? Anyway, here, allow me to hit the big drum for the favorite theme "code as an interface". As you see below, changing port or any of the servers or just about anything is super easy and done in one spot and stop. Then evaluate and all set. I mentioned I do Gnus, but depending on how generalized the settings are chances are most (or some) will be put to work by the other Emacs mail clients as well, and actually seemingly unrelated Emacs components as well. Why not? They are there. Some people say Emacs is inconsistent. But not entirely so! :) (let*((username "embe8573") (mail-name username) (domain "uu.se") (local-domain (format "student.%s" domain)) (pop-server (format "pop.%s" domain)) (smtp-server (format "smtp.%s" domain)) (smtp-port 25) ) (setq smtpmail-local-domain local-domain) (setq smtpmail-smtp-service smtp-port) (setq smtpmail-smtp-server smtp-server) (setq user-full-name "Emanuel Berg") (setq user-mail-address (format "%s@%s" mail-name local-domain)) (setq mail-sources `((pop :server ,pop-server :user ,username :password ,*mail-password*) ))) PS. Observe the secret password which is not hidden but actually a *global-variable*. This allows you never to enter the password which sure is a relief, especially if you are used to that from the autologin of the ttys. But actually I might as well put it there in cleartext as you already read all my mails :)) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573