Re: How to set up smtp?

[Ralf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 10:58 -0400, Vitaly Mayatskikh wrote:
> At Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:32:08 +0200, Ralf wrote:
> 
> > (setq wl-smtp-posting-port 25)
> 
> Try 587.
> 
> > (setq wl-smtp-authenticate-type "login")
> 
> Try "plain"

Thank you Vitaly,

a working Thunderbird is set up to

out.alice-dsl.net Port: 25
[x] Use name and password
[x] TLS, if available

If Evolution checks for supported types
- crossed out are: PLAIN, DIGEST-MD5, CRAM-MD5, POP before SMTP
- valid are: NTLM/SPA, GSSAPI, Login

But I've taken a look at the homepage of my provider:

(SMTP): smtp.alice.de (Port 25 without SSL, Port 587 when using
StartTLS)
(POP3): pop3.alice.de (Port 110 without SSL)
(IMAP): imap.alice.de (Port 143 without SSL)

SSL Port 465 for sending isn't supported.

If available authentication is needed.

And of course, out.alice-dsl.net instead of smtp.alice.de does work
here.

This didn't work:

;; wanderlust
(autoload 'wl "wl" "Wanderlust" t)
(autoload 'wl-other-frame "wl" "Wanderlust on new frame." t)
(autoload 'wl-draft "wl-draft" "Write draft with Wanderlust." t)

starttls-use-gnutls t
starttls-gnutls-program "gnutls-cli"
starttls-extra-arguments '("-s")

;; SMTP
(setq wl-smtp-connection-type 'starttls)
(setq wl-smtp-posting-port 587)
(setq wl-smtp-authenticate-type "login")
(setq wl-smtp-posting-user "ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net")
(setq wl-smtp-posting-server "out.alice-dsl.net")
(setq wl-message-id-domain "out.alice-dsl.net")
(setq wl-local-domain "out.alice-dsl.net")

This didn't work too:

[snip]
;; SMTP
(setq wl-smtp-connection-type 'plain)
(setq wl-smtp-posting-port 25)
(setq wl-smtp-authenticate-type "login")
(setq wl-smtp-posting-user "ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net")
(setq wl-smtp-posting-server "out.alice-dsl.net")
(setq wl-message-id-domain "out.alice-dsl.net")
(setq wl-local-domain "out.alice-dsl.net")

And this also didn't do the job:

[snip]
;; SMTP
(setq wl-smtp-connection-type 'plain)
(setq wl-smtp-posting-port 587)
(setq wl-smtp-authenticate-type "login")
(setq wl-smtp-posting-user "ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net")
(setq wl-smtp-posting-server "out.alice-dsl.net")
(setq wl-message-id-domain "out.alice-dsl.net")
(setq wl-local-domain "out.alice-dsl.net")

FWIW I launch Wanderlust by

$ emacs -e wl

then to edit an email 'M-x mail' and followed by 'M-x mail-send' to send
the email.

A password is needed, but there's no request for a password.

Best,

Ralf