Re: send mail directly using smtp ?

[William Xuuu]

Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:

> You seem to be trying to login to the SMTP server with a username it
> does not accept.  The question is "why?"  Is "william_xuuu" absolutely
> correct?  Is the password absolutely correct?  What's interesting to
> me is that your auth credentials line does *not* include the string
> "william_xuuu@163.com" and yet the server barfs on this.  It it
> reading the e-mail address from the From: header?
>
> My SMTP server requires authentication.  Here's my .gnus related to
> this (slightly munged):
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
> (eval-after-load "mail-source"
>  '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(pop :server "pop.iphouse.com"
>                                    :user "username"
>                                    :password "password")))
> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.iphouse.com")
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>       '(("smtp.iphouse.com" 25 "username" "password")))
>
> I don't see a significant difference, and yet mine does work.  Perhaps
> the problem is at the server end?

Cheers! Someone(It's me FKtPp) pointed out the problem. It won't work
because my Emacs's version is 21.3.1, with smtpmail.el too old to support
esmtp. By installing a cvs version of smtpmail.el, everything works
now. Thank It's me FKtPp, and thanks for your help as well.

-- 
William