From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bill White" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs MUAs with working smtp authentication? Date: 30 Aug 2006 07:39:05 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1156948745.791360.211930@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> References: <1156912134.588551.151490@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156948885 25012 80.91.229.2 (30 Aug 2006 14:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:41:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 30 16:41:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIRFU-0007Hg-4d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:41:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIRFT-0008D3-JV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:40:59 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.207.176.245 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1156948750 5506 127.0.0.1 (30 Aug 2006 14:39:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:39:10 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060808 Fedora/1.5.0.6-2.fc5 Firefox/1.5.0.6 pango-text,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=12.207.176.245; posting-account=MMAhiA0AAADb8Co-wu3wmXNO65HXDwIz Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141444 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37064 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: "Bill White" > > Date: 29 Aug 2006 21:28:54 -0700 > > > > Are there any emacs-based MUAs that handle smtp authentication more or > > less "out of the box" with the setting of a few clearly-documented > > variables? If so, can you point me to the documentation? > > > > I'm using cvs emacs from this afternoon. > > I might misunderstand what you mean by ``smtp authentication'', but it > seems to me that smtpmail.el is what you are looking for. > > If smtpmail doesn't fit the bill, please tell what's missing there. Indeed, I need a way to authenticate outgoing email thanks to new requirements set by my employer. I'm using gnus (from cvs emacs compiled on a Fedora Core 4 system) and haven't been able to make it work. Simon Josefsson tried to help me with this a couple of years ago when authentication was set up at my employer (but before it was *required*), but we failed to get it working. I no longer remember the details but I'll dig them up to see whether they might work better nowadays. I spent yesterday googling and twiddling variables to no avail. The IT folks at work know all about setting up the point-n-click MUAs; I'm the only one using gnus and they have no idea how to help me. I wish I knew what was missing in my smtpmail/system setup. Shall I post details here, or move the discussion to one of the gnus groups? I'd even switch to VM or rmail (or others) to do authentication as long as I can stay within emacs, where I do everything else at work. Thanks - Bill minutiae@gmail.com