Re: Problems with new smtpmail

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:
>
>> Maybe another good candidate for a NEWS mention. There is no immediate
>> relation among gnutls and STARTTLS for me. It is the first time that I
>> see gnutls-cli mentioned. It is not in NEWS.
>
> Ok, but I'm not sure what to say.

Maybe listing the requirements for STARTTLS to work? Something like "You
need to build Emacs with gnutls support and have gnutls-cli on your
PATH". Saying that the gnutls-cli is often contained in the gnutls-bin
package on GNU systems would also be nice :-)

>> So why is it mentioned in NEWS?
>
> It's mentioned that it, like `smtpmail-auth-credentials', it no longer
> exists.  I've now clarified further.

Ah, my English parser is buggy.

>> That was one half of the problem. My previous setup is now not
>> functional because it used variables that are not obeyed by smtpmail as
>> it used to (smtpmail-default-smtp-server ignored when in
>> custom-set-variables,
>
> `smtpmail-default-smtp-server' was always ignored if you loaded smtpmail
> before setting the variable.

Yes, but now it is ignored if listed on custom-set-variables even when
smtpmail is loaded later:

(custom-set-variables
  '(smtpmail-default-smtp-server "foo"))

(load "smtpmail")

fails here (smtpmail asks for a smtp server while sending email).

But

(custom-set-variables
  '(smtpmail-smtp-server "foo"))

(load "smtpmail")

works.

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