smtpmail authentication problem

[Steve Allan]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I'm using smtpmail-send-it from smtpmail.el to send email through
Verizon.  Verizon requires smtp authentication, so I've set

(setq smtpmail-auth-credentials 
      (quote (("outgoing.verizon.net" 25 "myusername" nil))))

With the password set to nil, I get prompted for my password, but it
never gets sent to the smtp server, so authentication fails.  

The problem is in the function smtpmail-try-auth-methods.  There's
logic which sets 'passwd' by checking the credentials and prompting if
the password is not found.  But that variable is not used in the
section of the code that sends the authenication string.

I fixed the problem by making this change:

BEGIN DIFF
*** smtpmail-broken.el  Sun Dec  4 13:28:54 2005
--- smtpmail.el Sun Dec  4 13:33:02 2005
***************
*** 569,575 ****
                                        (concat "\0"
                                                (smtpmail-cred-user cred)
                                                "\0"
!                                               (smtpmail-cred-passwd cred))))
        (if (or (null (car (setq ret (smtpmail-read-response process))))
                (not (integerp (car ret)))
                (not (equal (car ret) 235)))
--- 569,575 ----
                                        (concat "\0"
                                                (smtpmail-cred-user cred)
                                                "\0"
!                                               passwd)))
        (if (or (null (car (setq ret (smtpmail-read-response process))))
                (not (integerp (car ret)))
                (not (equal (car ret) 235)))
END DIFF

As per the instructions in the info manual, I used 'C-x 4 a' to
annotate the changelog, but since I'm not committing anything to CVS, I
don't know what good that does :)

Please let me know if I didn't submit the patch the right way.  I Hope
this is helpful. Thanks.

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In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2005-11-27 on STEVEA-LAPTOP
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configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2)'

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Recent messages:
Loading url-auth...done
Loading url-http...done
w3-load-flavors: Cannot open load file: w3-e22
nnml: Reading incoming mail from pop...
nnml: Reading incoming mail (no new mail)...done
Retrieving newsgroup: nnml+incoming.verizon.net:mail.misc...
Fetching headers for nnml+incoming.verizon.net:mail.misc...done
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-- 
-- Steve