From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Berkenbilt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10184: 24.0.92; smtpmail-{auth,starttls}-credentials changes Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:18:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4EDCD2BE.2020603@ql.org> References: <20111201132618.2044113588.qww314159@jberkenbilt-linux.appiancorp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323094892 32145 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2011 14:21:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:21:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10184@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 05 15:21:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1RXZQ7-0005sR-Eh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:21:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38799 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXZQ6-0006iJ-Hj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:21:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40619) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXZOF-0001vK-AL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXZOD-0000cu-UM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:19:31 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53431) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXZOD-0000cq-Sk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXZOj-0007vJ-OY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:20:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jay Berkenbilt Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:20:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10184 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10184-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10184.132309475530388 (code B ref 10184); Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:20:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10184) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Dec 2011 14:19:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXZNz-0007u4-BJ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:19:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailc2.tigertech.net ([208.80.4.156]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXZNw-0007tw-S0 for 10184@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:19:14 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailc2.tigertech.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D0F1409C1; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:18:39 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at c2.tigertech.net Original-Received: from [10.5.0.34] (unknown [38.124.250.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailc2.tigertech.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0880F1409C6; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:18:38 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:20:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:54714 Archived-At: On 12/04/2011 04:07 AM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Jay Berkenbilt writes: > >> I think this is a bad change as it forces me to store passwords in clear >> text on a file on disk, which I am not willing to do. > You can store your passwords in any of the backends that auth-source > supports, which includes encrypted files, keychains or Lisp code. Perfect: .authinfo.gpg works for me. I'm not sure how I was supposed to know this. It's not mentioned in NEWS, and it's not mentioned in the manual for smtpmail-auth-credentials either. By the way, I recognize the unmistakable writing style of the auth-sources manual. Very good reading. :-) This issue can be considered resolved pending any updates to documentation or pointers to appropriate documentation in the NEWS file, which only mentions .authinfo. --Jay