Re: Why I can't use gnus...

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"Mathias Gehrung" <matzematiker@gmx.de> writes:

> ... as my favourite mailreader. I enjoy using gnus as newsreader, and
> so I thought it would be fine using it for mail too. So I spent some
> days trying to get it to work with the several email-accounts I'm
> using. While IMAP's working fine, I experienced several problems using
> pop and smtp. Especially when using ssl or non-standard-ports
> (i.e. gmail smtp). So I did some searching the web and this
> newsgroup. Since I don't want to get together all needed files from
> several sources and different versions, I couldn't get things to
> work. Trying gnus from CVS helped a little, but still some things
> didn't work. So I ended up not using gnus for my email-thingy. So if
> anybody has still some tipps (the easy way) how to get gnus to work
> with pop and smtp using ssl I'd be delighted to hear them. 

I am the same with smtp send in gnus : nowhere can I find a working
example of how to get smtp-send-mail working with gmails smtp
servers. It might mean giving up on gnus alltogether since my owm
dynamic IP is in a banned IP range meaning certain mail hosts will not
accept mails sent by my machine.