From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: My Gnus now refuses to send long emails Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:06:06 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <84y4sz4gm3.fsf@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412201429 2126 80.91.229.3 (1 Oct 2014 22:10:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:10:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 00:10:23 2014 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 1XZS6G-0004Hi-OA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:10:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZS6F-0007xX-QT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:10:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="61a1e09a5dd16679b5767d77eb99504d"; logging-data="16886"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18kwXke7E9gYKSGN6bMyLM7lMtdy8B8X1E=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LEpFUq9d0SjfCn9jZlq4MwrLleg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207943 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:100218 Archived-At: Joe Fineman 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