Re: emacs-24.3.1 crashes on talking to Google

[Zdzislaw Meglicki <zdzisiekm at sbcglobal dot net>]

Ken asks:

> This is not specific to Cygwin.  If it belongs anywhere, it should be in the emacs manual.  
> I just looked at the section "Emacs speaks SMTP" in the smtpmail documentation, and 
> the instructions look pretty clear to me.  What happens if you follow those instructions, 
> replacing "mail.example.org" with "smtp.gmail.com"?  If there's anything Cygwin-specific 
> that goes wrong, then I'll try to fix it or add something to 
>
>   /usr/share/doc/emacs/README.Cygwin, 
>
> whatever is appropriate. 
 
I tried every trick and... it still crashes: the moment you try to send mail through Google
with emacs.
 
My latest .emacs code looked as follows:
 
(require 'smtpmail)
(require 'auth-source)
(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it)
(setq smtpmail-stream-type 'starttls)
(setq smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com")
(setq smtpmail-smtp-service 587)
 
The crash occurs with or without smtpmail-stream-type set. The authentication
lives on the ~/.authinfo file, which looks as follows:
 
machine smtp.gmail.com login <my-login> password <my-password>
 
of course, with <my-login> and <my-password> filled with the correct info.
 
There is some confusing information on-line and also in the emacs manual
about whether the ~/.authinfo file should be generated by emacs on asking
for the login and password on connection, or whether it should be written by
the user prior to invoking emacs. If I don't have this file, emacs does not ask
me for the login and password, but it crashes anyway.
 
Here's my question to the community: can anyone send e-mail through Google
SMTP from emacs-24.3.1 on the latest 64-bit Windows-8/Cygwin? I think the
TLS/SSL libraries are fine, because fetchmail works.
 
Greetings,
Gustav
http://perth.ovpit.indiana.edu/gustav

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