Re: How to send a mail using smtp?

[Duane Winner]

Jianbo Zhu wrote:
> D P Schreber <schreberdp@rayban.net> writes:
>
>
> > On 2004-12-19, Jack@mail.org <Jack@mail.org> wrote:
> >
> > > So no user info should be provided?
> >
> > [PLEASE edit quoted text before posting followups]
> >
> > My smtp server allows authentication but doesn't require it, so in this
> > context I never bothered to figure out how to set it up.  If yours
> > requires authentication, try info for 'SMTP'. Looks like you want to set
> > smtpmail-auth-credentials and maybe also smtpmail-starttls-credentials.
> >
> >
> > smtpmail-auth-credentials's value is "~/.authinfo"
> >
> > Specify username and password for servers, directly or via .netrc file.
> > This variable can either be a filename pointing to a file in netrc(5)
> > format, or list of four-element lists that contain, in order,
> > `servername' (a string), `port' (an integer), `user' (a string) and
> > `password' (a string, or nil to query the user when needed).  If you
> > need to enter a `realm' too, add it to the user string, so that it
> > looks like `user@realm'.
>
>
> I've got the following error while I try to send a message.
>
> You are not authorized to send mail as <MAIL FROM: <mouse0407@163.com>>, 
> authentication is require
>
>
> This is part of my .emacs file:
>
> (require ' smtpmail)
> (setq send-mail-function                'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq message-send-mail-function        'smtpmail-send-it)
> (setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server      "smtp.163.com")
> (setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.163.com")
> (setq smtpmail-debug-info t) ; only to debug problems
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials '("smtp.163.com" 25 "mouse0407@163.com" 
> "*****"))
>
> Can you tell me what I had missed?

I have been trying to get smtpmail to work with authentication, and have 
been having the same problem. I also posted a question over on 
gnu.emacs.vm.info looking for a solution.

Hopefully someone will have an answer to this.

Cheers,
Duane



> Regards,
> Jack