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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Outgoing mail defaults
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:14:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7hbsgm60.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762rcjm5r.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:42:08 -0500")

> I'd also like to remove the netrc-* function calls if no one objects.
> It would break people that expect ~/.authinfo and ~/.netrc to work.

I haven't looked at the patch yet, but I don't think this is OK, tho I'm
not sure exactly how bad this is.

> Those are the usual defaults of `netrc-file' but we strongly encourage
> ~/.authinfo.gpg now, so I think the damage is justified as it may get
> former netrc.el users to consider secure alternatives like EPA/EPG or
> the Secrets API.

Encouraging is fine, but preventing the use of an unencrypted file
doesn't sound right.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-21 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-17 17:04 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 17:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 17:31   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 18:18     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 18:33       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 19:35         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 17:25 ` David Reitter
2011-03-17 17:43   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 18:22     ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-18 14:10       ` John Sullivan
2011-03-17 19:02     ` David Reitter
2011-03-17 22:27       ` chad
2011-03-18  2:38         ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-18  4:17           ` chad
2011-03-21 19:46           ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-03-21 19:50             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 20:23 ` James Cloos
2011-03-17 20:30   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 20:35     ` James Cloos
     [not found] ` <87d3ln9b7y.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
2011-03-20  1:41   ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-20  3:06     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-20 12:20       ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-21 14:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-21 19:42           ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-21 22:14             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-22  2:01               ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 19:22     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-29 19:34       ` Application resource storage (was: Outgoing mail defaults) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-29 19:58         ` Application resource storage Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 20:14           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-29 21:02             ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 20:51           ` chad
2011-03-22 11:26 ` Outgoing mail defaults Simon Josefsson
2011-04-16 16:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-04-16 16:47   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-04-16 16:51   ` Ted Zlatanov

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