Re: Can't send mail with Emacs, can with XEmacs

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Jan 03 2007, Glyn Millington wrote:

> Recently I've been trying to use Emacs (21 and 22) but cannot persuade
> Gnus to send mail ....
>
> Postfix coughs up this error message
>
> ,----
> | Jan 2 13:46:20 beardedwonder postfix/smtp[6316]: 53C86156ED:
> | to=<wistanswick@linuxmail.org>, relay=smtp.eclipse.co.uk[82.153.251
> | .1]:25, delay=0.38, delays=0.07/0.09/0.06/0.15, dsn=4.0.0,
> | status=deferred (host smtp.eclipse.co.uk[82.153.251.1] said: 450
> | <glyn@beardedwonder.millingtons.org>: Sender address rejected: Domain
> | not found (in reply to RCPT TO command))
> `----
>
> Now I understand the message about the domain not being found; what I
> don't understand is why the self-same .gnus file allows me to send mail
> with XEmacs.  Can't see anything in my init.el that would affect this.
>
> A successful mailing with XEmacs/Gnus looks like this in the logs
>
> ,----
> | Jan 2 16:59:31 beardedwonder postfix/smtp[4942]: 452A51C7D9:
> | to=<wistanswick@linuxmail.org>, relay=smtp.eclipse.co.uk[82.153.251
> | .1]:25, delay=0.41, delays=0.17/0.03/0.07/0.14, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent
> | (250 Ok: queued as BE492C0748)
> `----
>
> This was Oort Gnus.
>
> Can anyone suggest where I might begin on this? Do Emacs and XEmacs have
> different defaults for certain variables?

Possible.  Maybe `user-mail-address'.

Do I understand correctly, that <glyn@beardedwonder.millingtons.org>
is the problem when using Emacs?  If so, try to find out which
variable has this value:
M-x apropos-value RET glyn@beardedwonder.millingtons.org RET

Maybe setting `user-mail-address' or `message-sendmail-envelope-from'
should solve the problem:

,----[ (info "(message)Mail Variables") ]
| `message-sendmail-envelope-from'
|      When `message-sendmail-f-is-evil' is `nil', this specifies the
|      address to use in the SMTP envelope.  If it is `nil', use
|      `user-mail-address'.  If it is the symbol `header', use the `From'
|      header of the message.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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