Re: SMPT no longer works in Starttls upon upgrading from emacs-22.3-bin-i386 to emacs-23.1-bin-i386 on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3.

[Benjamin L. Russell]

DekuDekuplex@Yahoo.com (Benjamin L. Russell) writes:

> I copied starttls.el directly without installing gnutils, which is more
> difficult to install on Windows than on Linux/UNIX.

Actually, I just installed GnuTLS using the Windows installer
executable (gnutls-2.9.3.exe), downloaded from "Index of /gnutls4win"
(see http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/); however, the bug persists.

Do I need to reboot Windows?

Here is my the relevant portion from my .gnus.el file:

> (setq send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)

> (setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)

> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))

> (setq gnus-permanently-visible-groups "mail")

> (setq mail-sources                                    
>       '((file :path "c:/var/mail/benjamin")
>       ))

> ;; Configure outbound mail (SMTP)
> (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com" 587 nil 
> nil))
>       smtpmail-smtp-server "plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
>       smtpmail-default-smtp-server "plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
>       send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
>       message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
>       smtpmail-smtp-service 587
>       smtpmail-auth-credentials '(("plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com"
>                                  587
>                                  "dekudekuplex@yahoo.com"
>                                  nil)))

Any ideas on the cause of the error, and a solution thereof?

-- Benjamin L. Russell
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