Re: Sending email from Windows

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

elf@ee.ryerson.ca (Luis Fernandes) writes:

> I cannot send mail from Emacs running under Windows XP connected via
> a PPP dialup connection (this is a game machine; installing GNU/Linux
> on it would mean that I would have to do work at home). 

Use customize to change your mail sending options to use
"smtpmail-send-it" instead of "sendmail-send-it", and set the other
smtpmail options appropriately for your ISP.

> When I select either Rmail or Sendmail (from the menu) to send email,
> Emacs complains that a program called 'fakemail' is not found.
> 
> I don't know whether this is a bug (it's supposed to work, but
> doesn't) or not (it's not suposed to work).

This is deliberate.  fakemail never worked on Windows, so by installing
it in previous releases we were just fooling users into thinking they
could send mail from Emacs out of the box, since it would fail silently.

-- 
Jason Rumney