From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem sending email with gnu emacs v 23 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:26:38 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6687ad58-a4b4-486a-81fa-4a94465b536a@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342456214 26652 80.91.229.3 (16 Jul 2012 16:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:30:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 16 18:30:14 2012 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 1SqoBZ-0003Pg-Tv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:30:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51812 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SqoBZ-0002yZ-8P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:30:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.89.145.141 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1342455999 9152 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2012 16:26:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:26:39 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=108.89.145.141; posting-account=czAMxQoAAAAUEojshw4CrIvcwSdulymE User-Agent: G2/1.0 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193501 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:85884 Archived-At: On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 1:21:12 PM UTC-5, nvangogh wrote: > Hello, > I have read the relevant sections of the emacs manual hoping to get my > emacs program set up to send email - to begin with. > > My ISP uses SMTP server on port 465 and I have verified that the server > is up and running by a nmap port scan. I have even inserted IP number > rather than address. > > My machine is running unix. > > This is the contents of my .emacs file: > > ---------- > > (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it > smtp-starttls-credentials '(("62.254.26.195" 465 nil nil)) > smtpmail-auth-credentials (expand-file-name "~/.authinfo")) > (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "62.254.26.195") > (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 465) > > ----------- > > When i C-C C-C to send the message, I get an error in the mini buffer > that says: > > "Process SMTP not running" > > I have tried to find the answer via google but no clear answer seems to > be available. Is anyone able to help with this? There is a discussion of this at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9699256/how-to-configure-emacs-smtp-for-using-a-secure-server-gmail which might be of interest.