Re: Please excuse this XEmacs user's desperation: smtpmail.el over SSL

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:02:05 -0700 (PDT) edburns <edburns@gmail.com> wrote: 

e> (setq starttls-use-gnutls t)
e> (setq starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls-cli")
e> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
e>       message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
e>       smtpmail-starttls-credentials
e>       '(("stbeehive.oracle.com" 465 nil nil))
e>       smtpmail-auth-credentials
e>       (expand-file-name "~/.authinfo")
e>       smtpmail-default-smtp-server "stbeehive.oracle.com"
e>       smtpmail-smtp-server "stbeehive.oracle.com"
e>       smtpmail-smtp-service 465
e>       smtpmail-debug-info t)
e> (require 'smtpmail)

Can you connect to the server with gnutls-cli from the command line?

If yes, can you use open-network-stream to do the same from within
Emacs?

Ted