Re: Please excuse this XEmacs user's desperation: smtpmail.el over SSL

[edburns <edburns@gmail.com>]

On Mar 30, 9:30 am, Christian Dietrich <stettber...@peer.zerties.org>
wrote:
> edburns <edbu...@gmail.com> schrieb:
>
> > I know this is GNU emacs, not XEmacs, but I've never had the chutzpa
> > to migrate.  I'm very sorry.  Please excuse me.  If anyone can help me
> > here, I would really be grateful.  I've spent many hours in edebug
> > mode and still am no closer to a solution than when I started.
> >=>  (open-network-stream "SMTP" process-buffer host port)
>
> This line seems to just opening the TCP Connection, Can you `message'
> the host/port or see it in the debugger (I never tried edebug, but i
> think i shoul). Can you connect there with netcat/telnet?
>
> > Can anyone help me here?  I mean, open-network-stream is just opening
> > a simple TCP connection.  That happens before SSL is established,
> > right?
>
> Work around:
> If you have ssh connection to an server were sendmail is working
> properly:
>
> Set the sendmailprogramm to `ssh host /usr/sbin/sendmail'. Works for
> me perfectly.

Ahh, if it were that simple.  While sendmail is installed at /usr/sbin/
sendmail,
it is configured to route through Sun's MTA, not Oracles.  Besides, it
said
something about "requires valid sender domain".

Anyone else?  Anything new?  Free book!

Ed