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Re: verizon and smtp authorization have me stumped
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Reiner Steib |
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Re: verizon and smtp authorization have me stumped |
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Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:21:53 +0100 |
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On Wed, Nov 30 2005, Tim McNamara wrote:
> The only difference between entering your credentials into
> Emacs/Gnus versus most other mail programs is that you write the
> file directly rather than indirectly, so you can actually see it.
> That doesn't necessarily make it any less secure.
I don't use smtpmail.el, but AFAICS it is supposed to allow the
omission of the password in the config files, both when using
~/.authinfo [1] and when setting is directly in
`smtpmail-auth-credentials'.
Bye, Reiner.
[1] See (info "(gnus)NNTP")
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