From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44366 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Cranefield Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: RE: smtpmail-auth-credentials from authinfo Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:51:07 +1200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019598788 1022 127.0.0.1 (23 Apr 2002 21:53:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 21:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 1708Dk-0000GM-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:53:08 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1708Cd-0000Vb-00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:51:59 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:52:11 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA25904 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:52:00 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 11145 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2002 21:51:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11140 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2002 21:51:20 -0000 Original-Received: from mailhub1.otago.ac.nz (139.80.64.218) by gnus.org with SMTP; 23 Apr 2002 21:51:20 -0000 Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailhub1.otago.ac.nz (8.10.1/8.10.1) id g3NLp2i25495; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:51:02 +1200 Original-Received: from mars.otago.ac.nz (mars.otago.ac.nz [139.80.81.42]) by mailhub1.otago.ac.nz (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g3NLoup25363; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:50:56 +1200 Original-Received: by mars.otago.ac.nz with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) id ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 09:51:09 +1200 Original-To: "'Ted Zlatanov'" , Simon Josefsson X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.9 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44366 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44366 Ted Zlatanov wrote: > I would appreciate > comments from Stephen Cranefield, who's noted in the smtpmail.el > credits as the AUTH support author. Hi Ted, I can't make any intelligent comment on your proposal because I only ever became a reluctant emacs hacker when the mail server I used had its configuration changed to require authentication. I haven't touched any emacs lisp since then and I have to confess that I have never heard of authinfo.el and netrc.el before. However, in general terms I think it is a good idea to allow users to set their password once and have it stored for future sessions - but not in plain text. I have just been setting my password when prompted each time I send my first mail message for the session, but I'd certainly like to have a better way, so I'm all for any enhancements that support this. Regards, Stephen