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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.