Re: What happened to smtp/sasl?

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 16:27:13 +0100 Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> wrote: 

JD> On Fri, Nov 29 2013, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> can you give a bug report or a way to duplicate the issue?  What's in
>> your .authinfo file?  What was the last working Emacs version for this?
>> What servers (ideally accessible publicly) are you hitting?  I need to
>> replicate it somehow.
>> 
>> I don't think I've changed anything that could cause this regression,
>> but I just don't know where to begin hunting.

JD> Damn… So I tried to explore the logs to see what happened, and this is
JD> not related to a change recently done.

JD> Actually what happened is that `flim' got installed on my machine, and
JD> its `smtp' package got used instead of `smtpmail' to send my mails.

JD> Why is that, I don't know. I suspect there is some code that hooked up
JD> `smtp' instead of `smtpmail', even if I have
JD> `message-send-mail-function' set to `message-smtpmail-send-it'.

JD> Removing flim -- that I don't even know what it is about nor care --
JD> solved the problem.

JD> Should be pretty easy to reproduce, though not sure it's worth it. I
JD> don't know if it's `smtp.el' that's abusing the system or `message.el'
JD> that's trying to play nice if you got an old package installed.

JD> Sorry for the noise, let's hope that thread may help future Internet
JD> traveller having this problem at some point.

Nice explanation.  I'm OK with leaving it alone for now.

Ted