From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT -- An extremely dumb curiosity question? Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:59:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1170949540.2898.24.camel@CASE> <45CBA71B.3030307@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171036806 17909 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2007 16:00:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:00:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 09 16:59:58 2007 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 4.50) id 1HFYAG-0003v4-J2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:59:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFYAG-0007nh-7w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:59:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFYA3-0007nc-CM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:59:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HFYA2-0007nO-1b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:59:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HFYA1-0007nL-SN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:59:41 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HFYA1-0000OJ-Dl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:59:41 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-217-134.inter.net.il [83.130.217.134]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HCA84418 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:59:42 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <45CBA71B.3030307@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:41017 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:41:31 +0100 > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" > Cc: EMACS List > > I am using Thunderbird as my mail client. I found it too hard to get > any Emacs mail client working on MS Windows. The instructions > unfortunately did not seem trustworthy for MS Windows and I depend > on that my mail client works without problems. I find the current instructions so easy and reliable that I cannot understand how someone with your, Lennart, experience could not succeed to set up email in Emacs on Windows. It worked for me 5 seconds after I installed Emacs on Windows for the first time, as soon as I've set 3 variables (smtpmail-smtp-server, smtpmail-smtp-service, and smtpmail-auth-credentials).