From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Outgoing mail defaults
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:20:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vw836j6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739miq8yf.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:20:56 -0500")
> How about this approach for first-time setup if people don't like the
> above, which avoids the "first found host" solution:
Yes, I'm not completely happy about this "first found" solution.
> 1) ask the user about the SMTP server name if `smtpmail-auth-source' is
> nil (the default)
> 2) ask the user if the server connection info should be saved through
> auth-source
I guess such a question might sound unclear to an unsuspecting user;
but if you phrase it as "do you need to use authentication" or something
like that, it would be fine.
> 3) if yes, do the auth-source creation prompts for user, port, and
> password
> 4) use Customize to save `smtpmail-host', `smtpmail-port', and
> `smtpmail-auth-source' to t or 'never according to (2). From now on the
> user will either just use `smtpmail-host' and `smtpmail-port' or call
> `auth-source-search' with :host ,smtpmail-host and (if the port is not
> nil) :port ,smtpmail-port
Sounds OK.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-21 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-17 17:04 Outgoing mail defaults Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 17:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 17:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 18:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 18:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 19:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 17:25 ` David Reitter
2011-03-17 17:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-17 18:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-18 14:10 ` John Sullivan
2011-03-17 19:02 ` David Reitter
2011-03-17 22:27 ` chad
2011-03-18 2:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-18 4:17 ` chad
[not found] ` <87bp14ntn8.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk>
2011-03-21 19:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 20:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-19 19:11 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-20 1:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-20 3:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-20 12:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-21 14:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-21 19:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-21 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-22 2:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 19:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-29 19:34 ` Application resource storage (was: Outgoing mail defaults) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-29 19:58 ` Application resource storage Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 20:14 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-29 21:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-29 20:51 ` chad
2011-03-29 21:23 ` Outgoing mail defaults Stefan Monnier
2011-03-22 11:26 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-04-16 16:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-04-16 16:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-04-16 16:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
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