bug#10829: 24.0.93; Error sending bug report -- default SMTP username

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:03:58 -0500 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote: 

GM> nyc4bos@aol.com wrote:
>> When trying to send a bug report with a valid email address that is
>> NOT part of (user-login-name), I get a prompt that gives the default
>> SMTP username as the value of (user-login-name).
>> 
>> If a default is specified, I had expected it to be from the valid
>> "From: " address I provided, not the value of (user-login-name).

GM> This seems to be unrelated to emacsbug. The same would happen with any mail.

>> [FWIW, I have .authinfo.gpg file but do NOT have ANY email information
>> in it, nor do I ever want to -- just NNTP information.]

GM> Okay, but authinfo is the mechanism by which the smtp user is specified.
GM> So if you choose not to use that, you... don't get to specify the smtp
GM> user. This doesn't seem like an "error sending bug report"; rather it
GM> seems a low priority wishlist request to tweak the default SMTP user
GM> name used when there is no authinfo (for most people, this will only
GM> happen once, the first time).

Look at the discussion for bug 9113 for more on this.  nyc4bos, you can
voice your opinion there or on the Gnus mailing list.  The consensus so
far seems to be that we should allow in-memory auth-source storage for
users who don't want to set it up, and just cache the information until
Emacs exits, but we should prompt to make sure that's what they want.

Ted