Re: Gnus: Sending email from an IMAP account: "Process smtpmail not running"

[Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>]

Okay, I finally figured something out:

1) I needed STARTTLS. This I could not find for Mac OS X, but it's contained in gnutls. I wanted to install the latest version, but that failed due to some missing file libnette... . I then used macports to install gnutls -- not a very new version, but it did the job.

2) .gnus.el [so that was correct]:
(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
      message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it
      smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")

3) When trying to send an email from my gmail account to my other account, I was asked for the user name and password. Apparently the info in .authinfo was not correct. Indeed, I had the full gmail address instead of just the login. So the correct version is (with the usual replacements):
machine mail.uni.edu login mylogin port imaps password ...
machine imap.googlemail.com login my.name port imaps password ...
machine smtp.gmail.com login my.name port smtp password ... 
=> Note the different port for smtp.gmail.com.

4) I also tried sending emails from my other (non-gmail) account and it worked. 

Remaining questions I have (since I'm not fully understanding what I am doing) are:
1) Are there any disadvantages in using smtp.gmail.com for sending emails from my non-gmail account? 
As far as I understood, gmail then takes care of saving sent mails [which would actually be good since the other account may change every once in a while]
2) How could I set up a second smtp server? Can I just add a line like 
smtpmail-smtp-server "mail.uni.edu" under 2) ?
3) What's the best way to get notified of new mail? I found:
3.1) gnus-notify.el
3.2) GnusBiff (see http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusBiff) set up via growl (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1053245/new-mail-notifications-in-gnus-for-emacs)
Is there also a way to get notified via a sound?

Cheers,

Marius


On 2011-11-20, at 21:32 , Marius Hofert wrote:

> Dear Tassilo,
> 
> many thanks for helping :-)
> 
> I added the line to .authinfo and the three lines to .gnus.el. I then tried to send emails from both my accounts and obtained (in both cases):
> "Sending failed: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. l18sm13222866fab.9"
> 
> I then tried it with...
> 
> (setq send-mail-function         'smtpmail-send-it
>        message-send-mail-function 'message-smtpmail-send-it
>        smtpmail-smtp-server       "mail.uni.edu")
> 
> ... but obtained again "Process smtpmail not running".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marius
> 
> 
> 
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