Re: smtpmail authentication again

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:45:23 +0100 Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> RR> I pulled nognus from git but this function is not there. there is
> RR> an -or-password funtion 
>
> RR> (auth-source-user-or-password MODE HOST PORT &optional USERNAME
> RR> CREATE-MISSING)
>
> RR> but that takes different args. Can you confirm
> RR> which repo this new function  is in and sorry if Im wasting your time.
>
> It's in the Gnut Git repo.  You did something wrong.  Here's the
> function, anyhow:
>
>
>
> #+begin_src lisp
> (defun auth-source-user-and-password (host &optional user)
>   (let* ((auth-info (car
>                      (if user
>                          (auth-source-search
>                           :host host
>                           :user "yourusername"
>                           :max 1
>                           :require '(:user :secret)
>                           :create nil)
>                        (auth-source-search
>                         :host host
>                         :max 1
>                         :require '(:user :secret)
>                         :create nil))))
>          (user (plist-get auth-info :user))
>          (password (plist-get auth-info :secret)))
>     (when (functionp password)
>       (setq password (funcall password)))
>     (list user password auth-info)))
>
> #+end_src
>
>
>
> The old `auth-source-user-or-password' is obsolete.  I named this one
> slightly differently to liven things up a bit (think "who's on first?"
> "user-or-password?" "no, user-AND-password" "AND is on second?" etc. :)
>
> Ted
>
>
>
>

Problem isolated but not properly fixed :  have some sort of nasty race
issue/ side affect from loading nognus using el-get. Not relying on
el-get to set the path and manually setting the path to my nognus
installation BEFORE allowing el-get to do its stuff solved the
issue. Cheers for the function, I think you see the value or use more
clearly now - certainly my hidden password files are now a thing of the
path and everything is in  the authinfo gpg file.