From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function' Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:32:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4E079767.30601@harpegolden.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309120445 22005 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2011 20:34:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:34:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 26 22:34:01 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 1Qaw1o-0003Zk-N9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:34:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57562 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qaw1n-0005GA-Qt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:33:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59312) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qaw0a-00058G-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:32:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qaw0Y-0002j5-So for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:32:44 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:51257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qaw0Y-0002j1-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.47.114] (87-198-47-114.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.47.114]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 62D19683D8 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:32:41 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110606 Icedove/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 65.99.215.13 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:141006 Archived-At: On 26/06/11 14:39, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Another random idea: If that's the main problem, then if the gnu.org MTA > would open a listening port on port 587, and accept mail to gnu.org on > that port, then we could just have the bug reports use > `smtpmail-send-it' to eggs.gnu.org:587 directly... > AFAIK there _has_ to be auth on 587 per rfc. Yes, emacs could hardcode an easily discovered username/password pair (or client cert) and "authenticate" with them, but that's a bit of a dubious thing to do.