Re: Mac OS Keychain with SMTP

[Paul Rankin <paul@tilk.co>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:15:15 +1000 Paul Rankin <paul@tilk.co> wrote: 
>
> PR> I'd like to eschew an .authinfo file in favour of the Mac OS Keychain
> PR> but can't seem to get it going. I keep receiving the error:
>
> PR>     auth-source-macos-keychain-search: The MacOS Keychain auth-source
> PR>     backend doesn't support creation yet
>
> 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.

I applied the patch and can now successfully use SMTP with a password
without an .authinfo file.

One further problem I had was that `auth-source.el` seems to always
query `security` with a port number, and I hadn't added a port number to
the keychain item in question, so, in Keychain Access.app

    Where: smtp://mail.example.com:465

fixed the problem.

This is probably a silly question, but if I don't want to mess with my
Emacs distribution, I should just put the patched version of
`auth-source-macos-keychain-search-items` into my init file right?


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