there's a spell mistake - 'recipient' is correct.
and in fact i cannot send to anyone, including myself.
and C-x m is same as M-x mail, i think, but also failed.

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> "winsphinX" <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote in message
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>> i can get news and mail by emacs+gnus,but cannot send mail.
>> in debug result, i see the words: 544:reciptient address reject:relay
>> access denied.
>> there's my .emacs config file（part of smtp only):
>> ...............
>> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
>> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
>> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.sohu.com")
>> (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.sohu.com")
>> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("smtp.sohu.com" 25 "winsphinx"
>> "******")))
>> (setq smtpmail-debug-info t)
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> Third time's the charm! Does it really say "reciptient" (copy-pasted?)"
> Maybe you misspelled the addie. Can you send mail to yourself. I just did
> with C-x m .... etc.
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