From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Fineman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Can't do email in Emacs 24.3 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:57:14 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374093192 16639 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2013 20:33:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:33:12 +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 Jul 17 22:33:14 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UzYPR-0005j4-AV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:33:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzYPQ-0002I7-ND for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:33:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="0df567880bbc2f74f5b747f0faf674fe"; logging-data="1951"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+zMORP5xnBzhI8I+D7XHgu" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KnwMFLLE5UjwuhTnvznsG6SD7PQ= sha1:K7gab93ZH/01pKYyXMcsl8RCjn8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199948 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:33:03 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92214 Archived-At: I've been using Emacs 22.3 (on Windows XP Professional SP3 with Cygwin) with an SMTP email connection to a Verizon DSL account successfully since 2008. The outgoing SMTP server is outgoing.verizon.net, and the port number is 25. In my .emacs file, I have been using the smtpmail-auth-credentials variable to provide emacs with the SMTP server name, port number, user name and password of the email account. This is a plain (unencrypted) connection, not using SSL/TLS. The other day, I attempted to ugrade to Emacs 24.3, and all went well until I tried to send email. Reading the documentation, I have discovered that the variable "smtpmail-auth-credentials" is no longer used, and I have created a ~/.authinfo file containing the required authentication information. I have also added variable definition (setq smtpmail-stream-type nil) though this should presumably not be necessary for a plain connection. In all cases (and this is also true for Emacs 24.1, which I have also tried), any attempt to send an email gives the response Sending failed: 500 5.7.0 Unknown AUTH error -1 (Internal authentication error) in response to Can anyone explain how to fix this? Thanks very much. -- --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Idealism, frustration, demoralization. :||