Re: smtpmail-auth-credentials from authinfo

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <teodor.zlatanov@divine.com> writes:

> I am attaching the netrc.el file, and the patch to gnus-util.el that
> will provide backward compatibility (via defalias calls) until the
> maintainers of the respective modules want to move to the netrc
> function names.

I commited it to CVS.  Have you signed FSF papers?  I'm not sure it is
required, strictly speaking the contribution was less than 10 lines, I
think.

>>> 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.
>
> When I know that the netrc.el functionality is accepted, I will try to
> modify smtpmail.el further to work with the netrc interface.
> smtpmail.el ships with Emacs, while netrc.el does not (yet?), so it
> doesn't make sense to modify smtpmail.el to rely on the netrc
> functionality only.  It should look for netrc first, and failing that
> it should try the smtpmail-auth-credentials.  I would appreciate
> comments from Stephen Cranefield, who's noted in the smtpmail.el
> credits as the AUTH support author.  It would also be good to know the
> chances of having netrc.el included in the main Emacs distro.

I agree.  Adding netrc.el to XEmacs mail-lib and patching smtpmail.el
in (X)Emacs shouldn't be a problem, I'll ask if it is OK to add
netrc.el on emacs-devel (altough patches could probably help
illustrating how it would work).  If you start patching smtpmail.el,
look at the latest Emacs CVS version.