Re: [Pan-devel] Re: Sending email problems

[Wiliam Harrington]

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 03:16:44 -0700
Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Wiliam Harrington posted
> <address@hidden>, excerpted below,  on
> Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:44:57 -0500:
> 
> >    Using 0.14.90 I press R to reply by email. I have my profile set. It
> >    still tried to send it via nntp and fails as the news server doesn't
> >    accept posting. Any ideas? Results in message being put in send queue.
> 
> This should go to the user list rather than the developer list.  However,
> now that it's here anyway...
> 
> You get the same composition dialog when mailing or posting to group (or
> to both).  The difference is in what (sending only. from line and sig,
> nothing about where it's going except that determines which from line and
> sig ar used) profile is used, and which line, the newsgroups line or the
> mailto line, is filled in.
> 
> You also don't mention if it works correctly if you use the menu option
> instead of the hotkey.  Note that the hotkeys can be changed, so if R
> isn't doing what you expect, maybe it's because the hotkey was changed, if
> going thru the menus works.
> 
> In any case, however, as I mentioned, the dialog is the same.  The only
> thing that changes with the mail function vs the post to group function is
> which line, newsgroups or mailto, is filled out.  Thus, if it's the
> newsgroups line filled out, delete that and fill out the mailto line
> instead, and it should go thru the mail.
> 
> This assumes of course you've set PAN up to know what server to use to
> mail it, which is separate from setting up any profiles.  Look under
> Preferences, Apps and Mail tab, Sending Mail.  You should have an SMTP
> server address and port number (default 25) set there.

Ok just created a test user and built pan cvs again and used a new config file 
and it won't send smtp, just nntp even when smtp is set.

Sincerely,
William Harrington