From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: mail: Sending...failed with exit value 71 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:42:34 +0000 Organization: None Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070999686 12788 80.91.224.253 (9 Dec 2003 19:54:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 20:54:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATnwR-0002Zf-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 20:54:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AToo9-0000Ds-Kr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:50:13 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.kabelfoon.nl!195.129.110.21.MISMATCH!bnewsfeed00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsinpeer01.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!lnewsinpeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 53 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk X-Spook: cray white noise generator TNT disruption GRAPO algorithm X-Attribution: GM Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6lsSmHPohGo8UKyjFykMNnIJChI= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119154 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15090 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15090 gebser@speakeasy.net wrote: > = > = (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it ; for Gnus > = > = send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it ; for other things > > Yep. What I had. And still have. Something is very broken if Emacs with those settings is trying to use sendmail to, err, send mail. > = > = smtpmail-smtp-server "your.mail.server") > > The arg here-- assuming a dynamic connection-- would be the remote > machine's (ISP's) server. I.e., I don't want to point it at my own > sendmail, correct? Correct. Give it the name of the machine running the SMTP server. The same thing as in the "smtp-server" field of your Pine config (which I think you said was working). > smtp-server's value is > "mail.speakeasy.net" > > Documentation: > The name of the host running SMTP server. > It can also be a function > called from `smtp-via-smtp' with arguments SENDER and RECIPIENTS. > > You can customize this variable. > > Defined in `smtp'. There is no "smtp" library in the Emacs-20.7 distribution. There is only smtpmail.el. New guess: you have got a not-part-of-Emacs package called smtp.el installed somewhere in your load path, and it is screwing things up. Can you do: M-x locate-library smtp and move the resulting file (both .el and .elc) somewhere harmless, out of the Emacs load-path? Googling around, it seems that "smtp.el" might be associated with a hacked smtpmail.el. You want to get rid of that too, and make sure you are using the standard Emacs smtpmail.el (located in share/emacs/20.7/lisp/mail). Once those non-Emacs files are out of the way, restart Emacs and try again. > So emacs shouldn't be using the local sendmail at all, should it? > But from the error messages we saw, it is. Yes - seems very broken.