Re: IMAP Sending Issue with Multiple Accounts

[James Thomas]

Serghei Iakovlev via "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs 
Usenet newsreader (in English)" wrote:

> Leo Butler writes:
>
>>> --8<-----------------cut here----------------start--------------->8--
>>> (defun my-configure-smtp-stream-type ()
>>>   "Configure the SMTP stream type based on the current user email address."
>>>   (cond ((equal user-mail-address "egrep@protonmail.ch")
>>>          (setq smtpmail-stream-type 'ssl))
>>>         ((equal user-mail-address "redacted@gmail.com")
>>>          (setq smtpmail-stream-type 'starttls))))
>>>
>>> (add-hook 'message-send-hook #'my-configure-smtp-stream-type)
>>> --8<-----------------cut here----------------end----------------->8--
>>
>> That function/hook is unnecessary. You can use
>> `gnus-secondary-select-methods' or use the Server Buffer to configure
>> the stream type.
>>
>> (info "(Gnus) Customizing the IMAP Connection")
>> (info "(Gnus) Server Buffer")
>
> The last thing I would have thought of is configuring SMTP settings
> through IMAP connection customization. As I mentioned earlier, I
> don't have any issues with reading emails from any of my accounts—the
> problem was specifically with sending mail and selecting the correct
> value for smtpmail-stream-type. Apologies if I misunderstood your
> point, but I did read the info pages you referenced, and I didn't
> find anything related to setting up SMTP there.

(info "(smtpmail) Authentication") was probably what was meant, but even
there, choosing the stream type seems to require such a tweak as yours.

But there seems to be a better way; see:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/gnus/message.el#n5027

Basically if you name the function as message-send-mail-with-<name>, you
should be able to directly call it from X-Message-SMTP-Method.

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