Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:17:44 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I was quoting your ChangeLog entry:
> >
> >   2011-06-27  Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  <address@hidden>
> >
> >       * mail/smtpmail.el (smtpmail-via-smtp): Bind coding-system-for-*
> >       to binary to possibly avoid line encoding issues on Windows (among
> >       other things).
> >
> > Btw, to _avoid_ line encoding issues on Windows, one should NOT bind
> > coding-system-for-read to `binary', because that binding brings the
> > CR-LF EOLs right into Emacs buffers.
> 
> Yes, and that's what we want, since SMTP uses CRLF as the line ending.
> And now I remember what the problem was -- under Windows it would
> infloop looking for CRLF, and never getting it, since Emacs helpfully
> auto-translated CRLF to newline under Windows.

??? The same auto-translation happens on Unix as well.  Are you saying
this problem happened only on Windows?