Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el

[Robert Pluim]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> From my perspective the chief benefit is that any `auth-source-search'
>> call against an unencrypted file will not require a passphrase until the
>> password is actually needed, and yet the password will be stored
>> securely.
>
> Sounds OK.  But only if you push if further and deprecate
> authinfo.gpg.

I'm not clear on why you'd want that.  I can imagine someone wanting to
hide username & server identities from inspection, not just the
associated passwords. ie I distinguish 3 cases

1) everything unencrypted
2) passwords encrypted only
3) everything encrypted

Robert