Re: smtpmail authentication again

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> 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.

So long as the passwords are encrypted in the authinfo.gpg....