Re: [Solved] Gnus and outgoing Mail

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>:
> We have succeeded at last. The problem was that my fried was using
> Emacs 21 which is standard in Debian Etch. This version is seemingly
> unable to send smtp-authentification in plain text. But this is what
> the German gmx relay-server requires. There is a patch on EmacsWiki
> under the rubric SMTP_AUTH together with the information that the CVS
> version already contains the patch. So, we installed the CVS
> emacs-snapshot for Debian. Now it works.
>
> This also explains, why it has always worked for me but not for him,
> because I always use the CVS snapshot.

That is good gnus :-)  Well done for persevering.

Sebastian