From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SASL related files in gnus/ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:48:23 -0500 Message-ID: References: <54a15d860710312047x3cafbba2ke000af9c0f05c2a4@mail.gmail.com> <54a15d860711111704j33ec6452r7f860131f926929e@mail.gmail.com> <87ve873279.fsf@mocca.josefsson.org> <87bq9y9nl5.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195008519 20368 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2007 02:48:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:48:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Manoj Srivastava Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 14 03:48:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Is8Iz-00024x-Ei for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:48:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Is8In-0004Ri-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:48:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Is8Ij-0004Op-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:48:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Is8Ii-0004M2-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:48:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Is8Ii-0004Lr-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Is8Ii-0000Yk-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:48:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Is8Ih-0003ok-DD; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:48:23 -0500 In-reply-to: <87bq9y9nl5.fsf@anzu.internal.golden-gryphon.com> (message from Manoj Srivastava on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:23:02 -0600) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:83156 Archived-At: > Could this feature work with Rmail or Mail mode? Could these files > work with Rmail mode or Mail mode? I see no fundamental obstacles to use there either. SASL is used to communicate to the SMTP and IMAP servers to authenticate the user, so one should be able to graft it on to any news/mail user agent in emacs. Thanks for the explanation. Are the current gnus/sasl*.el files written specifically for Gnus, or would they be good for anything in Emacs that wants to use SASL?