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bug#26307: 25.1; smtpmail hard-coded auth mechanism order does not allow
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Glenn Morris |
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bug#26307: 25.1; smtpmail hard-coded auth mechanism order does not allow coping with misbehaving servers |
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Sun, 02 Apr 2017 11:35:40 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Marco Maggi wrote:
>> (with-eval-after-load 'smtpmail
>> (setq smtpmail-auth-supported '(login cram-md5 plain)))
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>> Perhaps no Emacs change is needed then?
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> But the symbol is defined as a constant, so it would be bad style? It
> is also undocumented. Ideally one should be able to select such
> configuration on a per-server basis.
It's (presumably) a constant because in normal operation there's no need
to change it, but if you have a special need to change it, it's easy to
do so.
Personally I don't see a need to add complexity to Emacs to cater to
misconfigured servers.