Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> When I call the :save-function from auth-source, it thinks that it's
> going to save the credentials to ~/.authinfo.gpg, which it shouldn't.
> What's the proper way to call the function so that the data is saved to
> ~/.authinfo?

For now I've just altered the priority list in auth-source.el, which
makes this work well enough for now, and we can tinker with this more
later.

I am now going to commit the rewritten smtpmail.el.  I've tried testing
all the error conditions I could think of, but there's probably stuff I
haven't thought of.

Please give it a try and report back any errors you find.

It's mostly compatible with the previous version, but there are two
glaring incompatibilities:

`smtpmail-auth-credentials' no longer exists.  That variable could be
either ~/.authinfo (in which case you're fine -- you won't see any
difference), or it could be:

- ;;(setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
- ;;      '(("YOUR SMTP HOST" 25 "username" "password")))

If you had that, you will be prompted for a user name and a password,
which will then be saved in ~/.authinfo.

Similarly, if you had

- ;;(setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials
- ;;      '(("YOUR SMTP HOST" 25 "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert")))

then you need to put

machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 cert-key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert-cert 
"~/.my_smtp_tls.cert"

in your ~/.authinfo file instead.

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