From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: smtpmail.el and logging Date: 02 Jul 2005 16:38:22 +0100 Message-ID: <87fyux2p75.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> References: <87fyuy4ioe.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120319081 15676 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2005 15:44:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 15:44:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 02 17:44:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DokA7-0001a4-Ch for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 17:44:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DokBD-0005yp-W6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 11:45:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net FLvihfALz6HIu3vj4uKRWA/hKLZs9DQ+3LuSaCrIrM1tMx5WtM User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132299 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:27774 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27774 Kevin Rodgers writes: > I don't understand why those sites would accept a direct SMTP connection > from your machine but not an SMTP connection via sendmail. Good point! I suppose I use it as a way of cheaply switching to an alternative MTA pointed at an outgoing mailserver, and leaving the main MTA in its original configuration bypassing the server. > In any case, > smtpmail logs each transaction in the *trace of SMTP session to foo* > buffer, where foo is smtpmail-smtp-server. That is the kernel of information I needed, for which thanks. Also thanks for the defadvice examples -- should prompt me to finally get to grips with advice; I've known about it for years but never used it. Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html