[I am sorry. I hit the wrong keys and sent this message before I
completed it. I will try again.]
(25 September 1996, 8:36 PM, waiting for Supertyphoon Yates which is
quite nearby).
I am able to send mail to distant sites fine, but mail to
addresses at the domain of my ISP usually fails, from within Emacs
(but seems to work from within Pine, at least some of the time).
Actually, mail sometimes gets out from emacs to local addresses
too. Invariably, when sending mail to the same domain, I receive
a message from the "mailer-daemon" that the recipient cannot be
located; even so, _some_ of these messages are received by the
recipients, and I haven't successfully separated out the variables
that are responsible.
I note that in Pine there is a setup variable for the SMTP server,
while, in Emacs, I cannot find one. Pine seems to send mail
directly to the smtp server, while with Emacs mail is queued and
sent out when the ppp connection is made, using, in this case,
sendmail.
The following facts may be of note:
1. As a matter of configuration for a ppp link, my machine
shows the same name in /etc/hosts as the Domain name of my ISP,
and thus of the addresses of any mail addresses local to the same
ISP. I suspect that the failure messages from "mailer-daemon"
indicate that my system thinks it is the machine upon which these
recipients should be found. Note that even for local mail that
Pine successfully mails, I recieve these failure messages.
2. I am using smail, though I am not sure why, or whether it
is best. I would like to know whether I can configure the SMTP
server name (which is not identical to the ISP domain name, but a
machine on the same domain) in smail. Smail is queueing messages
nicely for outgoing mail, and I hope I can keep this feature.
3. I cannot find a variable in emacs in which to specify the
name of the mail server (smtp server).
4. I set SMTP=<mail server name> in the system environment,
but this maybe didn't make any difference, unless it made it
worse.
5. I am using vm in emacs.
I am perplexed, and would very much appreciate help getting to
where I can use mail in emacs with confidence. Heck, GNUS asked
for the name of the nntp server and seems to work as promised.
--
Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School
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Saipan, MP 96950
Northern Mariana Islands
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frequencies tried have been limited.''
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