From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81167 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: smtpmail authentication again Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:44:13 +0000 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87d3awtgda.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878vlktfy6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87ipkos051.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zkdaffyl.fsf@gnus.org> <877h0e5bjl.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87obtpc9h1.fsf@gnus.org> <87zkd92bvd.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r4yl80kb.fsf@gnus.org> <87fweuxudj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871uqextpz.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1328168684 7807 80.91.229.3 (2 Feb 2012 07:44:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:44:44 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29448@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 02 08:44:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RsrLW-0003ji-8N for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:44:42 +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 1RsrLR-0002rm-Qs; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:44:37 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RsrLQ-0002rW-LU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:44:36 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RsrLM-0007mE-QU for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:44:36 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RsrLL-0000Pw-DW for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:44:31 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RsrLJ-0003ds-Qf for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:44:29 +0100 Original-Received: from client-86-23-112-49.brhm.adsl.virginmedia.com ([86.23.112.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:44:29 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrg by client-86-23-112-49.brhm.adsl.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:44:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: client-86-23-112-49.brhm.adsl.virginmedia.com Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ACuSGyjny71Rux6IWg27QBK123A= X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81167 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:53:14 +0000 "Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson" wrote: > > J'O> Ted Zlatanov writes: >>> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:25:40 +0100 Lars Ingebrigtsen >>> wrote: >>> > LI> Ted Zlatanov writes: >>>>> OK. Do you want to put together a spec for how it would work? >>> > LI> It's more Extreme Programmish to just write the code! >>> >>> Extreme Programmers would have done it already in Ruby and node.js, >>> using 4 XML XSLT transforms. Slacker. > > JO> Is it not XP enough to just use msmtp? I'm currently using it with a > JO> hook to set the -a flag according to my From: line. > > Installing msmtp is not always an option (e.g. W32 or machines with no > administrator privileges), and it's not integrated with auth-source or > any other Gnus functionality. So it's not ideal for many cases, though > it certainly works well. seconded. Keeping all smtp passwords in auth gpg files along with other autentication data would be a great bonus. msmtp uses plain text config files.