From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu@poste.it>
Cc: 26307@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26307: 25.1; smtpmail hard-coded auth mechanism order does not allow coping with misbehaving servers
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 11:35:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ya37dqg6ur.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgrk756f.fsf@poste.it> (Marco Maggi's message of "Sat, 01 Apr 2017 13:12:08 +0200")
Marco Maggi wrote:
>> (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.
It's (presumably) a constant because in normal operation there's no need
to change it, but if you have a special need to change it, it's easy to
do so.
Personally I don't see a need to add complexity to Emacs to cater to
misconfigured servers.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-02 15:35 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
2017-04-02 15:35 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
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