Re: smtpmail authentication again

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Ideally it would be set by a group/topic parameter and also overridden
> at will.  It would be a logical name, which retrieves the rest of the
> info from auth-source (defaulting to the machine name, unless a logical
> name is also specified).
>
> So you'd have
>
> machine X port smtp ...
> machine Y port smtp login alpha nickname alphaY
> machine Y port smtp login beta nickname betaY
>
> and then setting the new group/topic parameter to "X" gives you the
> first one, "Y" gives you alphaY because it matches first in the file,
> "alphaY" and "betaY" give you the second and third lines respectively.

I haven't thought a lot about it, but I think it would have to be more
... complicated.  :-)

That is, I think a common use case would be to make lots of things
change based on what identity you're using.

If you're answering work email, you want to have that special
lawyer-mandated signature, your work From address, and you have to use
your company's outgoing SMTP server.

If it's personal email, you have funny signature, and you post via
Gmail with your Gmail From address.

So I think the most natural fit here would be to just add some smtpmail
variables to the group/topic parameters.

I think.

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