Adrian Aichner wrote:
Here's what should get you started:
Put this in your .emacs:
(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "your.smtp.host.fqdn.goes.here")
(setq smtpmail-local-domain "your.domain.goes.here")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-service "smtp")
(setq send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it))
(setq smtpmail-debug-info t)
(setq user-full-name "YOUR NAME")
(setq user-mail-address "USER(a)your.domain.goes.here")
When you send mail from a newly started XEmacs, you should get a
buffer named something like
*trace of SMTP session to your.smtp.host.fqdn.goes.here*
Have a look whether the SMTP protocol looks OK in there.
OK, I put
(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "localhost")
(setq smtpmail-local-domain "localdomain")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-service "smtp")
(setq send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it))
(setq smtpmail-debug-info t)
(setq user-full-name "Vaclav Barta")
(setq user-mail-address "vbar(a)comp.cz")
into my .xemacs-custom and reported a bug again. I did get
*trace of SMTP session to localhost* buffer and it looks OK.
The bug report is in the outgoing queue and the Return-Path
header is right. This time, for sure... :-)
If you want to get serious with using XEmacs for E-mail, I'd
recommend Gnus (powerful, handled netnews and mail uniformly) or
VM (a great mailreader). Both support MIME.
Well, the problem is that I want to
get serious using e-mail, as
such:
- I want to access my e-mail on my home computer, which has
a dial-up connection; I don't want to explicitly dial out to
send/receive e-mail - the system should sync e-mail every time it
gets a chance (works)
- I want to access my e-mail over the web, i.e. when I'm
travelling (doesn't work; so far, I got the server, but I'm not
even sure what I *should* install on it)
- I want to archive my personal e-mail, never throwing anything
away (works)
- I want to search the archive (works; I went so far as to write
a fulltext database for that)
- I want to subscribe to mailing lists but keep the mass e-mails
separate from my inbox and my long-term archive (sort-of works
but has scope for improvement)
- I want to subscribe to newsgroups (doesn't work - I simply
don't know how to get news in Ireland)
- I want to publicize my e-mail but don't want to see spam
(definitely has scope for improvement; client-side solution
is unsatisfactory - I want something on my server)
...and that's just a start of my wish-list... :-) As big as
the scope of the thermonuclear text editor might be, this project
is clearly outside of it. So (to get back on topic), any e-mail
client I use must fit into a larger picture, and I simply don't
understand xemacs enough to make it fit... I'm improving my
understanding, and I intend to get serious e-mail or (to quote
RMS) die trying of old age... :-)
Bye
Vasek