Re: Mac OS Keychain with SMTP

[Paul Rankin <paul@tilk.co>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>>> Please see Emacs bug#19074: Bug in auth-source.el's search of OS X
>>> Keychain at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-11/msg00805.html
>>> 
>>> There's a patch there which I haven't been able to test.  If you could,
>>> please try it and let me know your experience (in the bug thread or
>>> here).  You will have to pre-create your security tokens in the Mac
>>> OS X, since creating them through auth-source.el is not supported yet.
>
> PR> I applied the patch and can now successfully use SMTP with a password
> PR> without an .authinfo file.
>
> Cool.  Would you like to update the auth.texi manual to help fellow Mac
> OS X users with some guidelines and the note below?
>
> PR> One further problem I had was that `auth-source.el` seems to always
> PR> query `security` with a port number, and I hadn't added a port number to
> PR> the keychain item in question, so, in Keychain Access.app
>
> PR>     Where: smtp://mail.example.com:465
>
> PR> fixed the problem.
>
> Great!

I have perhaps found a related bug.

When:

    '(auth-sources (quote (macos-keychain-internet)))

and attempting to join a channel in erc, then I get the looping error:

    error in process filter: erc-channel-receive-names: Wrong type argument: hash-table-p, nil
    error in process filter: Wrong type argument: hash-table-p, nil

When:

    '(auth-sources (quote ("~/.authinfo" macos-keychain-internet)))

then everything works as expected.


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