Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el

[Stefan Monnier]

> I think it's necessary no matter what.  We've had several suggestions
> (from me, Lars, and Daiki Ueno) for something like what I'm proposing.
> It's definitely useful.

> Speaking of which, I think in addition to gpg: tokens we should support
> crypt: tokens (using the native OS crypt call) and MD4 or some other
> symmetric cipher simple enough to implement in ELisp.  GPG is not
> necessarily available or wanted.

One more thing: a user which has a ~/.authinfo.gpg but no unencrypted
~/.netrc nor ~/.authinfo should not be prompted for a password (since
that would be very annoying, if in the end she doesn't need
authentication).
I really think that trying to avoid smtpmail-use-auth is ill-advised.


        Stefan