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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> ....
>>
> 
>> Third, the documentation. Take...
>>
>> ;;(setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials
>> ;;      '(("YOUR SMTP HOST" 25 "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert")))
>>
>>
>> So, whats .my_smtp_tls.key then? Where does it come from? How do I get
>> it? Can I use gnutls to generate it? I have no idea at all. Further
>> investigation suggests that actually you can leave this blank, and it
>> should still work. 

The documentation could be made considerably clearer by speaking in
terms of SERVER and CLIENT rather than simply HOST.


> ....