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bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:49:35 +0200 |
Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com> writes:
>> Then how do you expect emacs to know that for those 2 particular
>> servers it should prompt straight away?
>
> Because (I believe) that the protocol requires a "password" or
> certificate.
Thatʼs unfortunately not the way SMTP authentication works, itʼs very
much optional (and some servers change their authentication
requirements based on the recipient of the mail youʼre trying to
send).
>
>> Or are you asking for a
>> generic 'if AUTH in capabilities then prompt username and password'
>> feature?
>
> I'm requesting to restore the capability that
> `smtpmail-auth-credentials' provided previously.
>
>>
>>> Previously, one used `smtpmail-auth-credentials' for this.
>>
>> Which as Eli points out needed to be stored somewhere as well.
>
> But it doesn't have to be stored on *disk*.
>
> It can be defined anew each Emacs session and thus only "stored"
> in *memory*.
I would find it very annoying to have to do that, but to each his
own. I doubt that having the username in memory is any more secure
than having it in an encrypted file.
Having said that, there might be a case that smtpmail should prompt
for authentication if smtpmail-smtp-user is set even without a
corresponding .authinfo setting. Iʼll take a look.
Robert
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Live System User, 2018/08/09
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/10
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Live System User, 2018/08/10
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/10
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Live System User, 2018/08/10
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Robert Pluim, 2018/08/20
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Noam Postavsky, 2018/08/20
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Live System User, 2018/08/20