Re: sendmail/smtpmail etc.

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Kan-Ru Chen <kanru@kanru.info> writes:

> 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.

Maybe I'm going around in circles again.

my send-mail-function is sendmail-send-it.

Why cant this be used to pass the correct authinfo password to sendmail
(which is exim4)? Part of not wanting to use msmtp etc is they are
synchronous.