From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 30347@debbugs.gnu.org, Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Subject: bug#30347: smtpmail.el doesn't retry with authentication when greylisting is used
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:59:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28sdky4g6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0x59usr.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 07 Sep 2020 22:49:24 +0200")
>>>>> On Mon, 07 Sep 2020 22:49:24 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Because Emacs doesn't know that the user has a password entry in
>>> ~/.authinfo.gpg until the user has type the password. (If the user is
>>> using password-protected ~/.authinfo files without a password agent,
>>> that is.)
>>
>> Ah, people who like typing passwords all the time. I see your point, though.
Lars> So I think this isn't something we should try to automate -- the user
Lars> will just have to specify that the SMTP connection uses a password. (I
Lars> think that's pretty common for mail user agents.) So I'm closing this
Lars> bug report as a "wontfix".
Didnʼt some bloke add smtpmail-servers-requiring-authorization just
for this kind of use-case?
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-04 14:01 bug#30347: smtpmail.el doesn't retry with authentication when greylisting is used Rainer Orth
2018-04-15 17:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-16 14:58 ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-16 18:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-17 10:33 ` Robert Pluim
2018-04-17 12:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-17 16:14 ` Robert Pluim
2020-09-07 20:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-08 9:59 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2020-09-08 10:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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