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bug#30347: smtpmail.el doesn't retry with authentication when greylistin


From: Robert Pluim
Subject: bug#30347: smtpmail.el doesn't retry with authentication when greylisting is used
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:59:21 +0200

>>>>> On Mon, 07 Sep 2020 22:49:24 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> 
>>>>> said:

    Lars> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
    >>> Because Emacs doesn't know that the user has a password entry in
    >>> ~/.authinfo.gpg until the user has type the password.  (If the user is
    >>> using password-protected ~/.authinfo files without a password agent,
    >>> that is.)
    >> 
    >> Ah, people who like typing passwords all the time. I see your point, 
though.

    Lars> So I think this isn't something we should try to automate -- the user
    Lars> will just have to specify that the SMTP connection uses a password.  
(I
    Lars> think that's pretty common for mail user agents.)  So I'm closing this
    Lars> bug report as a "wontfix".

Didnʼt some bloke add smtpmail-servers-requiring-authorization just
for this kind of use-case?

Robert





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