Re: "relaying denied" -- Can't set up SMTP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Dan Anderson <dan@mathjunkies.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:07:52 GMT
> 
> ,----
> | (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> | (setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
> | (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "mail.host.com")
> | (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
> |       '(("host.com" "25" "username" "password")))
> | (setq smtpmail-debug-info t)
> | (setq smtpmail-debug-verb t)
> `----
> 
> I end up getting something that looks like:
> 
> 550 5.7.1 <somebody@somewhere.com>... Relaying denied

The smtpmail docs says that the port can be either a string or a
number, but the code wants a number.  So change this:

 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
       '(("host.com" "25" "username" "password")))

into this:

 (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
       '(("host.com" 25 "username" "password")))

and things will probably start working.

I also have this line in my customizations:

 (setq smtpmail-smtp-service 25)

If this doesn't help, post here the entire contents of the SMTP
session buffer.