On 8/27/2013 12:53 PM, Zdzislaw Meglicki wrote:
I have a fresh installation of Cygwin and Emacs on Windows 8 Pro, which run on
AMD A8-5500 (quadcore, 64bit). The versions are as follows:
Emacs 24.3.1
Cygwin 1.7.24
I have two problems with emacs. First, when I start it under X11, but
not under KDE, it spews a message about not being able to connect to
the desktop but comes up eventually after a while. It crashes
What's the exact error message?
And can you reproduce this starting with 'emacs -Q'? If not, then there
might be something in your .emacs or X initialization files that are
making emacs think it should try to connect to the desktop.
eventually too, even if I don't do anything with it and chews up a
lot of CPU while still alive. The w32 version works better and this
is my default now. However, both versions, X11 and w32, crash on
sending mail through Google. This worked nicely with older versions
of Cygwin and emacs, which I used to run on Vista and Windows 7.
My .emacs settings for sending mail through Google, currently commented out,
are as follows:
;; (setq starttls-use-gnutls t)
;; (setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
;; message-send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
;; smtpmail-starttls-credentials
;; '(("smtp.gmail.com" 587 nil nil))
;; smtpmail-auth-credentials
;; (expand-file-name "~/.authinfo")
;; smtpmail-default-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
;; smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp.gmail.com"
;; smtpmail-smtp-service 587
;; smtpmail-debug-info t)
;; (require 'smtpmail)
It looks like you're using at least one obsolete variable. I suggest
you start by reading the emacs documentation on smtpmail, especially the
section on authentication. I glanced at it and noticed the following:
"Either or both of the login and password fields may be absent, in which
case Emacs prompts for the information when you try to send mail. (This
replaces the old `smtpmail-auth-credentials' variable used prior to
Emacs 24.1.)"
Ken
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