From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [winxp]smtp: connection refused Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:40:15 +0100 Organization: Janet Usenet Reading Service. Message-ID: References: <871vcs0y80.fsf@fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291824876 7840 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 16:14:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 16:14:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 17:14:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQMf1-0006kq-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:14:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38627 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQMf0-0005Cc-S0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:14:31 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!feeder.news-service.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!cs.uu.nl!news.stack.nl!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!times.reader.netnews.ja.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: gromit.cs.bham.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: north.jnrs.ja.net 1275349205 15889 147.188.193.16 (31 May 2010 23:40:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@north.jnrs.ja.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 23:40:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <871vcs0y80.fsf@fh-trier.de> Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178507 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:75591 Archived-At: 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 # 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