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Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el |
Date: |
Mon, 30 May 2011 16:13:33 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> But perhaps that can be an smtpmail.el configuration thing. But I'd
>> hoped to avoid that, but perhaps that isn't in the cards. SMTP is kinda
>> special amongst all the protocols, since all the other ones are pretty
>> much guaranteed to need credentials, while SMTP rarely uses it.
> Where have you been whilst spam has been conquering the world? ;)
> I have access to 3 separate SMTP servers, all of which require
> authentication, and it has been normal in every company I've worked in
> for the last half decade at least.
It's still very common for SMTP servers to use the IP address instead of
authentication credentials, and having to enter a password each time in
order for smtpmail to discover that no authentication was needed is
*really* annoying.
Stefan
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, (continued)
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/02
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/02
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/02
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/02
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/03
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/03
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/30
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Robert Pluim, 2011/05/30
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/30
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Robert Pluim, 2011/05/30
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/30
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/30
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Robert Pluim, 2011/05/31
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/31
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/31
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/31
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/05/31
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/31
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Stefan Monnier, 2011/05/31
- Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/05/31