Re: gnus smtp and gmail app specific permissions

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> writes:

> Any of you have a solution that works with smtpmail sending that sets up
> an app specific password for gmails smtp server?
>
> I have a setup using the multismtp selection from here:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultipleSMTPAccounts
>
> with the difference I set up my smtp accounts thus:-
>
> ,----
> |  (setq smtp-accounts '(
> |                        (ssl "rileyrg" "smtp.gmail.com" "587"
> |                             "(nth 0 (auth-source-user-and-password \"rileysmtp\"))" "(nth 1 (auth-source-user-and-password \"rileysmtp\"))" nil)
> |                        (ssl "shamrock" "smtp.gmail.com" "587"
> |                             "(nth 0 (auth-source-user-and-password \"shamrock\"))" "(nth 1 (auth-source-user-and-password \"shamrock\"))" nil)
> |  ))
> `----
>
> and then eval the user and password in the  set-smtp-ssl function. But
> I'm confused because apparently smtpmail-auth-credentials isnt used for
> ssl, so why is it set in that function?
>
> Ideally a simple working sample of setting smtpmails "authentication"
> variables in elisp would do.
>

Or possibly just a simple example of elisp programming to set up
smtpmail to use a third party smtp server line by line with auth details
from .authinfo?  I'm  confused with the cross over (if any)
between smtp credential variables and the use of authinfo.