Re: smtpmail, starttls authentication

[Leon]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:22:10 +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:

> I'm trying to get smtpmail to work with starttls. I think that I have
> some of it working, but I am a bit stuck on the authentication. 
>
>
> I have the following setup with appropriate values for set for all the
> "myserver" bits...
>
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "myserver")
> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
>
>
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials  ; or use ~/.authinfo
>       '(("myserver" 993 "myusername" "mypassword")))
> (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials
>       '(("smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk" 993 "" "" )))
>
>
> I get this response. 
>
[snip]
>
> Cheers
>
> Phil

It seems to me smtpmail requires ssl.el to use tls. But I'm not sure
since I can't set up smtpmail to send emails reliably.

-- 
Leon