Hi, an additional info: this comes up, when I try to send a mail: Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:00:24 +0100 Message-ID: <87cygxcsnb.fsf@Tuxedo.mail-host-address-is-not-set> My host is: gfp@Tuxedo ~$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost Tuxedo ::1 localhost Tuxedo how can I put that into my gnus.el? thanks Gottfried Am 08.01.25 um 14:22 schrieb gfp: > Hi, > > now I tried to send an email with gnus: > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The debugger said: > >  Emacs is about to send an email message, but it has not been >  configured for sending email.  To tell Emacs how to send email: > >  - Type ‘mail client’ to start your default email client and >    pass it the message text. > >  - Type ‘smtp’ to send mail directly to an "outgoing mail" server. >    (Emacs may prompt you for SMTP settings). > >  Emacs will record your selection and will use it thereafter. >  To change it later, customize the option ‘send-mail-function’. > > > and > Wrong type argument; listp, mailclient-send-it > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > My gnus.el: > >  Reply to mails with matching email address > (setq gnus-posting-styles >       '((address "gottfried ") >        ("X-Message-SMTP-Method" "smtp Posteo-posteo.de 465 > gottfried@posteo.de"))) > > > in the gnus manual it says: > ;(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it > ;                smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp Posteo-posteo.de 465 > gottfried@posteo.de") > > but it doesn´t work as well. > > I guess there is some code missing. > > thanks for help > > Gottfried