Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:15:52 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:53:18 -0500
>> 
>> >> Could you help me (or point me to the right examples) to:
>> >> 
>> >> - always create/write a file in UTF-8 on every platform
>> 
EZ> You mean, force Emacs to encode .authinfo in UTF-8 when creating it?
EZ> I guess that's the job for file-coding-system-alist.
>> 
>> So I would just override that when writing the netrc/authinfo file.  I
>> can't imagine any value in letting the user override the UTF-8 encoding,
>> can you?

EZ> No, I cannot.

OK, I can add that.  Stefan, would you consider this a bug fix (since
the previous writes were broken)?  If not I'll hold off until the
pretest is done.

>> >> - opportunistically open the file in binary, raw-text, UTF-8, etc. on
>> >> every platform
...
EZ> Just let Emacs do its usual guesswork.

Great, thanks for the advice.

Ted