From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: SMTP AUTH?
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:17:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluwuc5n3ml.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87znh14uiz.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
Bruce Stephens <bruce+usenet@cenderis.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> Bruce Stephens <bruce+usenet@cenderis.demon.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> What's a good way to use SMTP AUTH with Gnus?
>>
>> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>> '(("HOSTNAME" "PORT" "USERNAME" "PASSWORD")))
>>
>> The password field can be nil, to make Gnus query for it each time.
>>
>>> Similarly, SASL in IMAP, with nnimap?
>>
>> Happens automatically. If you don't want to enter the password
>> manually, add it to ~/.authinfo.
>
> Sounds too easy! That's what nnimap was trying to do with imtest,
> then?
Nnimap uses imtest for GSSAPI/Kerberos 5, which isn't implemented in
elisp yet, as far as I know. I guess it could be used for other SASL
mechanisms too, but since SASL support is built in, I don't see why
you would want that.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-18 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-17 22:57 Bruce Stephens
2003-09-17 23:35 ` Simon Josefsson
2003-09-18 6:30 ` Christophe Cuq
[not found] ` <87znh14uiz.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
2003-09-18 22:17 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
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