Composing a message in Gnus runs Kmail

Question

As a new Emacs user, I decided to start using Gnus. I achieved to configure it, but I didn't manage to send mail properly. Indeed, when I use either C-c C-c or M-x message-send-and-exit, it loads KMail (my default mail reader on Fedora 23 KDE) fulfilled with my mail specificities. Is there a way so I could send mail from Emacs itself?

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I fixed it using another emacs configuration on github (https://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/). I guess it's too soon for me to make my own configuration :)

Answer 1

You need to configure emacs to use smtp. In my config file I have the following.

(require 'smtpmail)
(setq message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
      starttls-use-gnutls t
      smtpmail-starttls-credentials '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil))
      smtpmail-auth-credentials (expand-file-name "~/.authinfo.gpg")
      smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
      smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
      smtpmail-smtp-service 587
      smtpmail-debug-info t))

That should be everthing you need, hopefully.

I also have the following which you may need:

(setq gnus-posting-styles '(((header "to" "[email protected]")
                 (address "[email protected]"))))

Let me know if you find success!