From: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: My Gnus now refuses to send long emails
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:06:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0htse$gfm$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 84y4sz4gm3.fsf@verizon.net
Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net> writes:
> I use Gnus 5.13 under Cygwin 1.5.25 under Windows XP. For the last few
> days it has refused to send any email longer than about 2500
> characters, whether in the text proper or in an attachment. Sometimes
> the message is
>
> smtpmail-send-command: writing to process: no error, SMTP
>
> and sometimes
>
> Process SMTP not running.
>
> My Emacs 24.3 tells me that smtpmail-send-command is not documented.
> What is going on?
>
> Note: I have repeatedly tried to post this query on gnu.emacs.gnus.
> Gnus goes through the motions, but the posting has never appeared. I
> have had not difficulty posting on other newsgroups, so I am trying this
> one.
I had a Verizon issue show up this summer which was solved by
putting this in my .gnus.el:
(setq smtpmail-auth-supported '(plain login cram-md5))
My symptoms were a bit different though.
The above makes gnus try cram-md5 last.
Verizon stopped working with cram-md5.
--
Dan Espen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-01 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-01 21:36 My Gnus now refuses to send long emails Joe Fineman
2014-10-01 22:06 ` Dan Espen [this message]
2014-10-02 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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