Re: mail rmail gnus on w32

[B. T. Raven]

"John Wallington" <jpw@pobox.com> wrote in message
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> "B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@peoplepc.com> writes:
>
> > All I have in "po:Your... etc" is my email address (same as log-in
name).
> > Where does the password go and can it be saved and entered
automatically
> > by emacs?
>
> You can set the variable `rmail-remote-password'. *******
>
> > Now when I type C-x m the minibuffer just shows "Sending mail..
> > but then times out without sending it.
>
> You might like to set `smtpmail-debug-info' to t to see any errors.

Thanks, I have done that.

>
> If you need to specify a password for your SMTP server then you could
> try also seeting the variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials', eg:
>
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>       '(("servername" 25 "username" "password"))) *************

* But then the password exists on the system in plaintext, doesn't it? I
am using w32 build, ver. 21.3 on w98.