Re: sendmail/smtpmail etc.

[Kan-Ru Chen <kanru@kanru.info>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> writes:

>> Do you want to use different configuration for different sending
>> address? I use the recipe from
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultipleSMTPAccounts but add hook to
>> message-send-mail-hook so it works no matter it's sent directly or from
>> the queue.
>
> No. I want to use the relevant smtp server that corresponds to the mail
> server in question with the auth details passed from emacs and my secure
> authinfo.gpg file. In fact, and to go further, I want to avoid any and
> all hacks such as that wiki solution and the myriad of similar ones which
> makes configuring gnus so hard at times. Any solution which starts with
> "Basically" always gives me the willies to be honest... Connecting to
> and reading from a server is well catered for. Posting via that same
> seems not to be so straightforward.

So you want exim4/msmtp to use credentials from authinfo? But this is
not something emacs could help, that exim4/msmtp has to provide the
interface to either read from authinfo directly or read from a secret
pipeline or so. 

However, smtpmail is very easy to setup and uses authinfo by default.

-- 
Kanru