Emacs and Multiple SMTP servers

Question

There used to be a bunch of hacks for using multiple SMTP servers with Gnus that mostly entailed to add a special mail header depending on the current group and parsing this information out with a custom send-mail function.

Since Emacs 24 most available work-arounds broke, while sendmail is now much easier to use and setup with a single server.

What is the best way to have multiple SMTP servers with Gnus and use the one belonging to the group I'm currently reading in Emacs 24?

Answer 1

I'm using msmtp and this setup and some gnus-posting-styles successfully on Emacs 24.1.1.

(defun cg-feed-msmtp ()
  (if (message-mail-p)
      (save-excursion
    (let* ((from
        (save-restriction
          (message-narrow-to-headers)
          (message-fetch-field "from")))
           (account
        (cond
         ;; I use email address as account label in ~/.msmtprc
         ((string-match "[e-mail]" from) "example1")
         ;; Add more string-match lines for your email accounts
         ((string-match "[e-mail]" from) "example2"))))
      (setq message-sendmail-extra-arguments (list '"-a" account))))))

(setq message-sendmail-envelope-from 'header)
(add-hook 'message-send-mail-hook 'cg-feed-msmtp)


(setq gnus-posting-styles
      '(("nnimap\\+EXAMPLE2:INBOX"
     (address "[e-mail]"))))