From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80773 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: smtpmail authentication again Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:00:41 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87ehveshi6.fsf@enigma.otenet.gr> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325790118 20706 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 19:01:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 19:01:58 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29055@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 05 20:01:54 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RisZU-0001Mp-4Q for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:01:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RisYs-0001UD-Vg; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:01:15 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RisYq-0001U1-Ef for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:01:12 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RisYc-0003UQ-KZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:01:11 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RisYa-0003Mg-J4 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:00:56 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RisYa-0000tN-4E for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:00:56 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:00:56 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:00:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tXtMxenv2qDTe8BM53qIWEOjFFI= X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80773 Archived-At: Kostas Zorbadelos writes: > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> Richard Riley writes: >> >>> There are numerous complex hacks/howtos out there which swap smtp >>> authinfo based on from address etc, but with all the recent changes I am >>> wondering if its now built in somehow? >> >> No, there's no built-in multi-smtp setup in No Gnus/Emacs 24.1, but it's >> certainly something that I want to add during the next development >> cycle. > > I use msmtp [1] with posting styles to achieve this functionality and it > seems to work fine for me. > > [1] http://msmtp.sourceforge.net Msmtp is third party and doesnt allow, easily, encrypted authentication : the passwords are stored in clear text meaning anyone who can access your HD can read your passwords. Not good. unix file permissions are not good enough IMO especially on a netbook , when not encrypted, which is easily mislaid.