From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: ding <ding@gnus.org>, <scranefield@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: smtpmail-auth-credentials from authinfo
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:47:54 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204191642580.406-100000@yxa.extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3sn5rvkeu.fsf@onyx.nimbus.northernlight.com>
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> I had to write this for my own authentication (so I could share my
> .gnus.el). I didn't want my smtpmail-auth-credentials to be in the
> clear, and it seemed like a better idea to do it through authinfo.
You can set `smtpmail-auth-credentials' from some other place than
.gnus.el, and protect that file in the same way you protect .authinfo.
> Has anyone else done something similar? The solution below requires
> .authinfo lines formatted "machine xyz port 25 login abc password ijk"
> which is, perhaps, too inflexible. Suggestions are welcome.
> .authinfo support should probably go into the next smtpmail.el as
> well, at least as an option.
Isolating authinfo into a separate package and making it available for all
emacs applications, and then making Gnus and smtpmail use the new
interface, seems like a good idea. Do you want to do it or should I?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-19 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-19 14:21 Ted Zlatanov
2002-04-19 14:47 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-04-19 15:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-04-19 15:55 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-04-23 15:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-04-23 17:23 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-04-25 19:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2002-04-19 15:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-23 21:51 Stephen Cranefield
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