Re: using a smtp server (not sendmail)

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

Uri Guttman <uri@stemsystems.com> writes:

> is there any way to get emacs/gnus to use my isp's smtp server directly?
> from what i can find it uses /usr/xxx/sendmail (which in my case is
> provided by qmail). my problem really is that verizon fios outbound smtp
> required authentication and qmail doesn't support that without a
> patch. since outbound isn't an issue (i do use qmail for inbound just
> fine) i thought i could bypass it inside emacs/gnus. only a few symbols
> are found with smtp in them.

Hi, from what I gather, gnus uses either sendmail, or an smtp.el
package to do the job itself.
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