retitle 403930 xemacs21-basesupport: smtpmail silently drops mails if /usr/bin/sendmail rejects them thanks
While trying to find a workaround for this problem I discovered some more details: Not vm but smtpmail.el(c) seems to be the core of the problem since you get a (though not very meaningful) error message if you switch smtpmail over to use SMTP instead of the default /usr/sbin/sendmail. But at least you get an error message and the mail stays unsent in its buffer. The same also happens with M-x mail if the mail gets too big. The same bug can also be found in smtpmail for GNU Emacs 21 from the emacs21-common package, see http://bugs.debian.org/403953 for details. A workaround is to use SMTP instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail. Then you get at least an "SMTP protocol error", although you still get no hint, what exactly went wrong. For using this workaround, add (custom-set-variables '(send-mail-function (quote smtpmail-send-it)) ; change this to your favourite server -- only needed if $SMTPSERVER is not set. '(smtpmail-smtp-server "mail.example.com")) (custom-set-faces) to the end of your ~/.xemacs/custom.el file. Kind regards, Axel Beckert -- Axel Beckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> support: +41 44 633 2668 IT Support Group, HPR E 86.1 voice: +41 44 633 4189 Departement Physik, ETH Zurich fax: +41 44 633 1239 CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
