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Re: Emacs 21.2, smtpmail, and vm
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: Emacs 21.2, smtpmail, and vm |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Feb 2003 08:25:35 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) |
Chris Hall <hall.cj@verizon.net> writes:
>> What does C-h v on the variable tell? The setting you quote seem
>> incorrect. If you are unsure about what the variable should contain,
>> I suggest using M-x customize-variable RET smtpmail-auth-credentials
>> RET.
>
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials ; or use ~/.authinfo
> '(("~/.netrc")))
> ("outgoing.verizon.net" 25 "username" "password"))
There are two parenthesis too much, try:
(setq smtpmail-auth-credentials "~/.netrc")
Customize is your friend, it makes sure you only use valid settings.
>> > If I set credentials to a .netrc file (!) (after of course returning
>> > to CVS, getting a copy of netrc.el and putting it in my load-path),
>> > I get prompted for a password, even though it is already in .netrc,
>> > and authentication proceeds - the smtp trace buffer shows the base64
>> > exchange between vm and my ISP.
>>
>> What did the .netrc line look like? Maybe you need to add "port
>> smtp".
>>
> machine outgoing.verizon.net
> port smtp <-- After I read your message. Is this the right place?
> login username
> password password
It seems you must put everything on line, i.e.:
machine outgoing.verizon.net port smtp login username password password
This is probably a bug in netrc.el, your syntax looks valid according
to ftp(1). Maybe you don't ever need the port setting.