Sending Mail
In the process of all this looking, I decided to try to get *sending*
mail to work. I hear tell from this faq
(http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/Network-access.html) that
emacs can "talk directly to SMTP mail servers" via smtpmail.el. I
stuffed the following in my .emacs:
(setq user-full-name "Your full name")
(setq user-mail-address "Your@email.address")
(setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "domain.name.of.your.smtp.server")
(setq send-mail-command 'smtpmail-send-it) ; For mail-mode (Rmail)
Did C-x m, wrote stuff, did C-c C-c and promptly got a Thunderbird
window popping up the message (well, actually it told me to paste the
message in because the text had been conveniently dropped on my
clipboard, thankfully obliterating what was there before). Is there a
way to stop this from happening and for Emacs to just send it itself?
"Talk directly to SMTP mail servers" doesn't mean "Fire up another
application" in my opinion.