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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Ted Zlatanov wrote:

> Should I extract that to authinfo.el (or netrc.el?)  so it can be
> integrated with smtpmail.el?

I think that would be a good idea.  nntp.el, imap.el and sieve.el would 
also need to be changed, and maybe more stuff.

> Also smtpmail.el needs to be patched so it accepts the old-style flat
> lists and the gnus-parse-netrc style output.

I think it would be better if smtpmail.el looked in .authinfo by default, 
and not touch the `smtpmail-auth-credentials' stuff.