From: Uday S Reddy <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [winxp]smtp: connection refused
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:40:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hu1hcl$fgh$1@north.jnrs.ja.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vcs0y80.fsf@fh-trier.de>
On 5/31/2010 6:37 PM, Andreas Politz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> can someone help me with this ? I am not able to use smtp on a winxp
> machine at work. I get this error :
>
> --
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "make client process failed"
> "connection refused" :name "SMTP" :buffer #<buffer *trace of SMTP
> session to mail.fh-trier.de*> :host "mail.fh-trier.de" :service 25)
"connection refused" is the message Emacs is getting from the process. What does the *trace of SMTP...* buffer show? Check to see if there is a firewall blocking the connection.
If nothing works, you might try msmtp, which is often reported to be more reliable than the Emacs smptmail package.
Cheers,
Uday
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2010-05-31 17:37 [winxp]smtp: connection refused Andreas Politz
2010-05-31 23:40 ` Uday S Reddy [this message]
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