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Re: Outgoing mail defaults
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Outgoing mail defaults |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:20:22 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> How about this approach for first-time setup if people don't like the
> above, which avoids the "first found host" solution:
Yes, I'm not completely happy about this "first found" solution.
> 1) ask the user about the SMTP server name if `smtpmail-auth-source' is
> nil (the default)
> 2) ask the user if the server connection info should be saved through
> auth-source
I guess such a question might sound unclear to an unsuspecting user;
but if you phrase it as "do you need to use authentication" or something
like that, it would be fine.
> 3) if yes, do the auth-source creation prompts for user, port, and
> password
> 4) use Customize to save `smtpmail-host', `smtpmail-port', and
> `smtpmail-auth-source' to t or 'never according to (2). From now on the
> user will either just use `smtpmail-host' and `smtpmail-port' or call
> `auth-source-search' with :host ,smtpmail-host and (if the port is not
> nil) :port ,smtpmail-port
Sounds OK.
Stefan
- Re: Outgoing mail defaults, (continued)
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Re: Outgoing mail defaults, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/17
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Re: Outgoing mail defaults, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/29
Re: Outgoing mail defaults, Simon Josefsson, 2011/03/22