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Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight |
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Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:32:18 -0500 |
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:50:57 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:16:53 -0500
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:19:59 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
EZ> That is fine for newcomers to smtpmail. But put myself in my shoes: I
EZ> configured my smtpmail years ago, and don't even remember the name of
EZ> my SMTP server, let alone the password. People like me will not be
EZ> amused if their old setup suddenly stops working until they dust out
EZ> old instructions.
>>
>> The variable is obsoleted. Isn't that the normal way to do it, possibly
>> annoying people?
EZ> I understand that the variable is not just obsoleted, it no longer has
EZ> any effect whatsoever. Isn't that so?
Yes. I think Lars and Stefan explained why we should kill it better
than I could. Sorry if it's inconvenient, but I don't see a way of
keeping backwards compatibility without ending up with duplicate
information. We're really migrating from Lisp-based to file-based
authentication token storage, not just changing a variable's effect.
It's a big change. Trying to plaster over it now will, I think, be even
more painful later.
Ted
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, (continued)
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/21
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Robert Pluim, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/06/22
- Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/22
- Re: netrc field encryption in auth-source, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/06/30
Re: Opportunistic STARTTLS in smtpmail.el, Stefan Monnier, 2011/06/06