Re: sending mail with gnus

[Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca>]

On Wed, Jan 08 2025, gfp <gfp@posteo.at> wrote:

> Hi Arash,
>
> thanks for your help.
> I appreciate that very much.
>
> 1.
> How do you do this? to get this line:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> 2.
> I fiddled around for many hours today to get gnus SMTP working
> and to my own great astonishment
> I just managed it some seconds before I got your email.

How did you send this email? This email that I am replying to does not
have a User-Agent set in the headers. You can check the headers of the
other emails, they all have some variation on:

User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

(In Gnus, in the message buffer, type t to show the headers).

Leo

>
> my gnus.el:
> ;; get emails
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
> (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
>       '((nnimap "posteo"
>                 (nnimap-address "posteo.de")
>                 (nnnimap-user "gottfried@posteo.de")
>                 (nnimap-authenticator login)
>                 (nnimap-stream ssl)
>                 (nnimap-server-port 993))))
>
> ;; Reply emails
> (setq gnus-posting-styles
>       '((smtpmail-smtp-service)
>         (smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.posteo.de")
> 	(smtpmail-smtp-user "gottfried@posteo.de")
>         (smtpmail-smtp-port 465)))
>
>
> So I don´t need your help at the moment. But I will keep it as record,
> in case I need it.
>
> Interestingly even I changed my /.authinfo file into /.authinfo.gpg
> it worked.
>
> I am happy,
> but unfortunately it takes many hours
> to set up every small step in Emacs and Gnus.
>
> Further questions will arise...
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Gottfried
>
>
>
> Am 08.01.25 um 21:53 schrieb Arash Esbati:
>> gfp <gfp@posteo.at> writes:
>> 
>>> My gnus.el:
>>>
>>>   Reply to mails with matching email address
>>> (setq gnus-posting-styles
>>>        '((address "gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>")
>>>         ("X-Message-SMTP-Method" "smtp Posteo-posteo.de 465
>>>         gottfried@posteo.de")))
>>>
>>>
>>> in the gnus manual it says:
>>> ;(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
>>> ;                smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp Posteo-posteo.de
>>>                   465 gottfried@posteo.de")
>>>
>>> but it doesn´t work as well.
>> I don't use posteo, but I think the following snippets should get
>> you
>> going:
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ;; ~/.gnus
>> (setq gnus-parameters
>>        '((".*"
>>           (posting-style
>>            (name "gfp")
>>            (address "gottfried@posteo.de")
>>            ;; ("X-Message-SMTP-Method" "smtp posteo.de 465")
>>            ))))
>> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
>>        smtpmail-smtp-server "posteo.de"
>>        smtpmail-smtp-service 465)
>> ;; ~/.authinfo
>> machine posteo.de port 465 login gottfried@posteo.de password PASSWORD
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> Note that I like to use `gnus-parameters' as one-stop shop for
>> setting
>> all parameters for my groups, incl. the posting style.
>> Best, Arash
>
>

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Best regards,
Dr Butler