Re: SMTP library problem

[David]

Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> writes:
> I have a similar or perhaps the same problem.  I use the same type of
> settings as you do.  How long did you wait after Emacs "froze up".  In
> my case, it "unfreezes" after 20 minutes and the SMTP trace buffer shows
> this:
>
> Process SMTP finished
> 454 TLS connection failed: timed out (#4.3.0) 
> - Peer has closed the GNUTLS connection
> QUIT 

Could it be that the SMTP server does ssmtp (usually on port 465)
instead of SMTP+STARTTLS? Do you see a greeting message from the server
when you connect to it with telnet?

-David