10.10 SMTP

Mew uses SMTP to send messages. If an SMTP server requires authentication, Mew automatically asks you to input your password. This section describes following variables to control SMTP.

‘mew-smtp-server’

The name of your SMTP server.

‘mew-smtp-port’

The port for SMTP.

‘mew-smtp-ssh-server’

The name of SSH server which forwards the SMTP port.

‘mew-smtp-ssl’

If non-nil, SMTP connections are made over SSL.

‘mew-smtp-ssl-port’

The port for SMTP over SSL.

‘mew-smtp-user’

The user name on your SMTP server. If not configured, your e-mail address is automatically set.

‘mew-smtp-auth-list’

A list of SMTP AUTH methods in the preferred order. Currently, "CRAM-MD5", "PLAIN", and "LOGIN" can be used.

‘mew-smtp-helo-domain’

An e-mail domain to tell a SMTP server with HELO/EHLO. The default is "localhost".

‘mew-smtp-mail-from’

The default is ‘nil’. An e-mail address to tell a SMTP server with MAIL FROM:. If ‘nil’, an address specified by the From: field is used.

‘mew-smtp-msgid-user’

A user name for creation of Message-Id:. If ‘nil’, the value of ‘mew-user’ is used. The default is ‘nil’.

‘mew-smtp-msgid-domain’

A domain name for creation of Message-Id:. If ‘nil’, the value of ‘mew-mail-domain’ is used. The default is ‘nil’.

‘mew-use-8bit’

Whether or not send 8bit text without MIME encoding. If ‘nil’, an appropriate MIME encoding is applied. The default is ‘nil’.

A value of Message-Id: for SMTP is created by the following rule:

message-id = *random*.smtp-msgid-user@smtp-msgid-domain

If you want to use Message Submission (SMTP for submission whose port number is 587), configure as follows:

(setq mew-smtp-port "submission")

Please refer also to SSL (See section Secure Socket Layer) and TLS (See section Transport Layer Security).

Some SMTP servers are mis-configured. They requests authentication though errors occur if passwords are received. Mew automatically ask a user to input user's password and send it to an SMTP server if it requires authentication. To get along with such SMTP servers above, configure as follows:

(setq mew-use-smtp-auth nil)

‘mew-use-smtp-auth’

If non-nil, Mew send user's password if an SMTP server requests authentication. The default value is ‘t’. If ‘nil’, Mew does not send user's password even if the (mis-configured) SMTP server requests authentication.

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