From: Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 31990@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 19:38:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lfoa9so.fsf@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wosle5n4.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:42:07 +0200")
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
> Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> From: Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com>
>>>> Cc: 31990@debbugs.gnu.org
>>>> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 04:53:16 -0400
>>>>
>>>> >> It was done manually anew in each session, yes.
>>>> >
>>>> > Then you should be able to manually set the variables derived from the
>>>> > auth file, no?
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, no, as there is only the variable `smtpmail-smtp-user'
>>>> and no "smtpmail-smtp-password"-like variable...
>>>
>>> Then perhaps we should add them.
>
> And then people go 'but I want different values for different
> accounts', and weʼre back at the .authinfo solution.
>
>> Yes, although I would prefer that the solution would be more
>> comprehensive and allow users to make first-time *authenicated*
>> connections instead of retrying (with a subsequent prompt for
>> the password) only after a first-time *unauthenicated* connection
>> failure.
>>
>> This would better solve this issue and for bug#26359 as well.
>>
>>> I do consider yours a very strange use case, btw.
>>
>> I do it for my sense of privacy (as little as it may be).
>
> Adding just the smtp username into .authinfo is really that much of an
> issue for you?
I don't want that information for 2 accounts *stored on disk*.
> Given that youʼre using initially-unencrypted SMTP
> connections,
This issue is *also* present in an initially-*ENCRYPTED* TlS SMTP
connection (port 465).
> I fail to see the benefit to your privacy.
Would you use similiar arguments for those who chose NOT to store
their SMTP pasword in an (encrypted) .authinfo file?
>> To each's own...
>
> Indeed.
Then, nopefully, this option will be restored back in Emacs.
Thanks.
>
> Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-20 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-27 22:41 bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report Live System User
2018-06-28 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-29 13:32 ` Live System User
2018-06-29 14:55 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-08 9:41 ` Live System User
2018-07-10 12:11 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-10 17:25 ` Live System User
2018-07-11 9:19 ` Robert Pluim
2018-07-11 20:47 ` Live System User
2018-07-12 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-09 21:54 ` Live System User
2018-08-10 6:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-10 8:53 ` Live System User
2018-08-10 9:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-10 13:50 ` Live System User
2018-08-20 9:42 ` Robert Pluim
2018-08-20 11:21 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-08-20 23:38 ` Live System User [this message]
2018-07-12 8:04 ` Robert Pluim
2018-08-09 22:18 ` Live System User
2018-08-20 9:49 ` Robert Pluim
2018-08-21 3:56 ` Live System User
2018-08-21 10:22 ` Robert Pluim
2018-08-21 16:02 ` Live System User
2019-07-26 13:12 ` Robert Pluim
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