Re: send mail directly using smtp ?

[William Xuuu]

Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:

> You seem to be trying to login to the SMTP server with a username it
> does not accept.  The question is "why?"  Is "william_xuuu" absolutely
> correct?  Is the password absolutely correct?  What's interesting to
> me is that your auth credentials line does *not* include the string
> "william_xuuu@163.com" and yet the server barfs on this.  It it
> reading the e-mail address from the From: header?
>
> My SMTP server requires authentication.  Here's my .gnus related to
> this (slightly munged):
>
> (add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods '(nnml ""))
> (eval-after-load "mail-source"
>  '(add-to-list 'mail-sources '(pop :server "pop.iphouse.com"
>                                    :user "username"
>                                    :password "password")))
> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.iphouse.com")
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>       '(("smtp.iphouse.com" 25 "username" "password")))
>
> I don't see a significant difference, and yet mine does work.  Perhaps
> the problem is at the server end?

I don't understand then... I'm sure username and passwd are
correct. Actually, same configurations for mozilla-thunderbird works
well.

-- 
William