From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus: Sending email from an IMAP account: "Process smtpmail not running" Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:56:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87y5vah8jp.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321819041 31361 80.91.229.12 (20 Nov 2011 19:57:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:57:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 20 20:57:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSDVp-0001vO-5d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:57:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59464 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSDVo-0000eV-Dp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:57:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSDVk-0000eF-BK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSDVi-0001He-RK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:51847) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSDVi-0001HZ-Jk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:57:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSDVg-0001tZ-Jw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:57:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 91-67-11-43-dynip.superkabel.de ([91.67.11.43]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:57:04 +0100 Original-Received: from tassilo by 91-67-11-43-dynip.superkabel.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:57:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91-67-11-43-dynip.superkabel.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zaz1EcpbqntWWob394CSWuzgSUg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:82985 Archived-At: Marius Hofert writes: Hi Marius, > With the (great) help of Tassilo Horn, I was able to set up gnus to > read email with an IMAP account Thanks for the compliments. :-) > At the moment, I try to set it up to *send* email, but I receive > "Process smtpmail not running". For sending mail, you need to configure Gnus to use some SMTP server (unless you have some working sendmail running) like this: (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com") > In ~/.authinfo, I specified the login details as follows: > machine imap.googlemail.com login my.name@googlemail.com port imaps password .... > machine mail.uni.edu login mylogin port imaps password .... You probably need to add machine smtp.gmail.com login my.name@googlemail.com port imaps password .... as well. I'm not sure if gmail's smtp allows relaying, i.e., sending mail when you use your "uni.edu" mail address in the From header. If it doesn't, try if your university's smtp allows it. If not, you need to add some customization for selecting the right server dynamically when sending mail. I think, that's documented somewhere on EmacsWiki. Bye, Tassilo -- (What the world needs (I think) is not (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses)) but (an English (with more.))) Brian Hayes, http://tinyurl.com/3y9l2kf