bug#12424: 24.2; Gnus smtpmail not reprompting for failed password

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake@nasa.gov> writes:

> I have Gnus set up to get mail from an MS exchange server, using tls for
> authentication.
>
> Relevant settings:
>
> (setq starttls-use-gnutls nil)
> (setq starttls-extra-arguments nil)

If you have an Emacs 24 with built-in gnutls support, then these
variables aren't used.

> (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials
>       '(
>         ("smtp02.ndc.nasa.gov" 587 nil nil)
>         ))
> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>       '(
>         ;; The number of backslashes here seems to change from time to
>         ;; time; experiment if it fails.
>         ("smtp02.ndc.nasa.gov" 587 "ndc\\sleake" nil)
>         ))

These variables no longer exist in Emacs 24.

> When first connecting, it prompts for my password. If I enter it
> incorrectly, it never reprompts; I have to quit Emacs to get it to
> reprompt.

Looking at the code in smtpmail.el, it looks like it should only save
the password if the login was successful.  However, I don't have access
to any SMTP servers that require login, so I can't reproduce this.

I think.

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