From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:52:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83sjr2vaqk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874o5cfui5.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87liyndz5l.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8739jogwf9.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87lix9eknu.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <878vt52ykv.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878vt25tbf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87zklbnet1.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308711171 30272 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2011 02:52:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:52:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 22 04:52:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QZDYa-0001MJ-KF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:52:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44400 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZDYZ-00076W-ME for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZDYI-00075K-KV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:52:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZDYE-00014l-2N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:60307) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZDYD-00014b-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:52:21 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LN6009007RNRC00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:52:19 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.66.211]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LN6009M57Z6M360@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:52:19 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:140823 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:01:33 +0200 > > `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. Why do we have to have this incompatibility? Why cannot smtpmail-auth-credentials continue be supported, in addition to the new ~/.authinfo? E.g., note the value of the variable and automatically write ~/.authinfo?