Re: Mail (POP3/IMAP) using STARTTLS

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 23 May 2008 10:45:23 +0200 Felix Natter 
<felix.natter@smail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote: 

FN> hello,
FN> I am using STARTTLS to connect to my institution's smtp-server:

FN> (setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials
FN>       '(("smtp.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de" 587 "" "")))

FN> (setq mail-sources
FN>       '((imap :server "imap.inf.fh-brs.de"
FN>               :stream ssl
FN>               :user "fnatte2s"
FN>               :password "XXX")))

FN> (but I'd be happy with POP3 as well)

FN> However, I don't have a certificate, I'd like to authenticate via
FN> username/password. Unfortunately, smtpmail.el says:

FN> smtpmail-starttls-credentials is a variable defined in `smtpmail.el'.
FN> Documentation:
FN> Specify STARTTLS keys and certificates for servers.
FN> This is a list of four-element list with `servername' (a string),
FN> `port' (an integer), `key' (a filename) and `certificate' (a filename).

If you can use the latest Emacs and Gnus (from CVS), they support
specifying the password like this:

machine smtp.yourhost.com login tzz password SECRET

or

machine smtp.yourhost.com login tzz password SECRET port smtp
# if needed
machine smtp.yourhost.com login tzz password SECRET port 993

in your netrc file (by default ~/.authinfo.gpg, see the variable
`auth-sources' in auth-source.el, and enable EPA to get .gpg files to be
automatically encrypted).

Ted