>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Gutierrez
<gutier(a)intergate.bc.ca> writes:
Gerald> Hi all.
Gerald> I'm running into the most incredibly annoying problem I've
Gerald> ever encountered (for the past week at least).
Don't exaggerate :-)
Gerald> I connect to the Internet via a modem and am dynamically
Gerald> assigned IP addresses by my ISP. Naturally, then, I use
Gerald> their SMTP server for sending mail.
For far so good.
Gerald> Every now and then when I try to send mail using VM, Emacs
Gerald> will pause for half a minute and then come back saying
Gerald> that my SMTP server's hostname is an unknown host. I know
Gerald> it's not because I've used it for years. Occasionally,
Gerald> GNUS does something similar as well, so I don't think it's
Gerald> a VM problem either.
Do you have the net-utils XEmacs package installed?
If yes, you can try
M-x ping RET smtp.intergate.bc.ca RET
or even
M-x nslookup RET smtp.intergate.bc.ca RET
Oh, you SMTP server has multiple addresses. I wonder if ...
Default Server:
master.ecf.teradyne.com
Address: 131.101.192.10
smtp.intergate.bc.ca
Server:
master.ecf.teradyne.com
Address: 131.101.192.10
Name: smtp.intergate.ca
Addresses: 207.34.179.20, 209.52.161.1, 207.34.179.35
Aliases: smtp.intergate.bc.ca
Gerald> What's going on here?
Gerald> I compiled my own XEmacs on Mandrake 6.1, so I don't think
Gerald> there's a library problem. I've even tried to put in the
Gerald> IP address of the SMTP server in /etc/hosts, so I don't
Gerald> think it's any kind of DNS issue. Does anyone have any
Gerald> idea what's going on?
Gerald> I'd appreciate any help anyone can give.
Gerald> My email setup, for reference:
Gerald> ;;
Gerald> ;; Mail
Gerald> ;;
Gerald> (setq user-full-name "Gerald Gutierrez")
Gerald> (setq user-mail-address "gutier(a)intergate.bc.ca")
Gerald> (setq mail-self-blind t)
Gerald> ;; SMTPMAIL
Gerald> (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
Gerald> (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.intergate.bc.ca")
Gerald> (setq smtpmail-smtp-service "smtp")
Gerald> (setq smtpmail-local-domain nil)
Why do you set above variable to nil?
Try this:
(setq smtpmail-local-domain "intergate.bc.ca"b)
Good luck,
Adrian
Gerald> (setq smtpmail-code-conv-from nil)
Gerald> (autoload 'smtpmail-send-it "smtpmail")
Gerald> ;; VM
Gerald> (autoload 'vm "vm" nil t)
Gerald> (autoload 'vm-mail "vm" nil t)
Gerald> (setq vm-use-toolbar nil)
Gerald> (setq vm-mutable-windows t)
Gerald> (setq vm-mutable-frames nil)
Gerald> (setq vm-primary-inbox "~/d/vmmail/inbox")
Gerald> (setq vm-crash-box-suffix ".crash")
Gerald> (setq vm-spool-file-suffixes (list ".spool"))
Gerald> (setq vm-folder-directory "~/d/vmmail/")
Gerald> (setq vm-spool-files (list
Gerald> (list "~/d/vmmail/inbox"
Gerald> "~/d/vmmail/inbox.spool"
Gerald> "~/d/vmmail/inbox.crash")
Gerald> ))
