From: Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 26307@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26307: 25.1; smtpmail hard-coded auth mechanism order does not allow coping with misbehaving servers
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2017 13:12:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgrk756f.fsf@poste.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it "Fri\, 31 Mar 2017 18\:59\:27 -0400")
Glenn Morris wrote:
> Marco Maggi wrote:
>> (defconst smtpmail-auth-supported '(cram-md5 plain login)
>> "List of supported SMTP AUTH mechanisms.
>> The list is in preference order.")
>> it would be useful to have a public API mechanism to change such order
>> in case the server misbehaves when using the cram-m5 method.
> Intead of recompiling, you can add to your .emacs:
> (with-eval-after-load 'smtpmail
> (setq smtpmail-auth-supported '(login cram-md5 plain)))
> Perhaps no Emacs change is needed then?
But the symbol is defined as a constant, so it would be bad style? It
is also undocumented. Ideally one should be able to select such
configuration on a per-server basis.
--
Marco Maggi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-01 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-30 6:54 bug#26307: 25.1; smtpmail hard-coded auth mechanism order does not allow coping with misbehaving servers Marco Maggi
2017-03-31 22:59 ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-01 11:12 ` Marco Maggi [this message]
2017-04-02 15:35 ` Glenn Morris
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