From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: levander Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: "From: address is not valid." when sending mail Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:30:36 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1183156236.269204.191330@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183188030 12728 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2007 07:20:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:20:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 30 09:20:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I4XFo-0002Fa-OJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:20:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4XFo-0004V0-4H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:20:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.32.215.156 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1183156236 26504 127.0.0.1 (29 Jun 2007 22:30:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:30:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Ubuntu-feisty),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.32.215.156; posting-account=Oa3GOw0AAAAi0-T-IJdP2acXmys8dCUI Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149768 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:20:09 -0400 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:45358 Archived-At: I'm trying to set up smtpmail to send mail from gnus and the defaul mail user agent. I've got most of it working. But, there's some error when smtpmail is sending the email to my ISP's mail server. >>From the smtp trace in emacs, note that highhat.net is a private domain name that I just made up here, mindspring.com is the mail domain, earthlink.net is the domain that hosts the mail server for mindspring: Process SMTP deleted 220-elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net ESMTP Exim 4.34 #1 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:10:31 -0400 220-NO UCE. EarthLink does not authorize the use of its computers or network 220 equipment to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited e-mail. EHLO louis.highhat.net 250-elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net Hello louis.highhat.net [66.32.215.156] 250-SIZE 14680064 250-PIPELINING 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 250-STARTTLS 250 HELP AUTH PLAIN [was some long encoded looking string - removed cause I didn't know if it was sensitive info] 235 Authentication succeeded MAIL FROM: SIZE=18868 250 OK RCPT TO: 550 From: address is not valid. Please check your email settings. QUIT 221 elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net closing connection Is that "MAIL FROM:" being sent to the server, is that the same as the "From" header in the composed email itself. If so, I don't know why it's being set to highhat.net, as I'm using styles in gnus to set the from address to "levander@mindspring.com", and I see that header field in the window when I'm composing the email. Maybe that "MAIL FROM:" being sent to the server is coming from /etc/ mailname? I do have "highat.net" in that file. But, I'd rather not change the contents of that file. Is there another way to specify the domain sent to the server in that "MAIL FROM:" string? My smtp-auth-credentials does have "levander@mindspring.com" set as the username. If it wasn't, I don't think authentication would succeed in that trace.