Re: Using smtps over port 465 in emacs24

[Rene]

Julien Danjou <julien <at> danjou.info> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 15 2011, Rene wrote:
> 
> > my company has turned to a secured smtp server 
> > I now should be using the smtps protocol on port 465.
> > Unfortunately I cannot seem to make this work.  
> 
> Try to add :
> 
>     (setq smtpmail-stream-type 'ssl)

It's good you mentionned this because I never could have figured this out by
myself from the info file nor from the smtpmail.el file.

This fix should definitely be added to the variable's documentation string.

> > Besides I don't get any error message at all which leaves me 
> > with no clue on how
> > to debug this problem although both `smtpmail-debug-verb' and
> > `smtpmail-debug-info' are set to t.
 
That's strange that absolutely no message whatsoever was issued when trying to
send messages.

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Rene