[25299] in Athena Bugs
Re: Emacs and SMTP Authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z Maze)
Tue Nov 4 15:33:44 2003
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:33:39 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1067964232.29272.134.camel@error-messages.mit.edu> (Greg
Hudson's message of "Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:43:52 -0500")
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> writes:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:48, Tom Cavin wrote:
>
>> One of the reasons I'm asking about Emacs and the smtpmail.el file is that
>> it does its own SMTP submission and queing in user space, and will
>> therefore be able to try to authenticate on later attempts.
>>
>> Is there an update scheduled for Athena's Emacs lisp code?
>
> We normally update packages like emacs during a full release, but I
> can't imagine there's an upstream emacs release with either SSL or
> GSSAPI capability in the elisp code; crypto and elisp don't generally
> mix. Do you have information to the contrary?
I recently asked the current maintainer of smtpmail.el about this on
the gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup, and he said that he was "hoping to work
on this soon". Probably the sanest way to do it is to patch
smtpmail.el to call smtptest rather than making the SMTP connection
directly; the current IMAP module for the Gnus mail/newsreader works
the same way, by invoking imtest.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&th=308aab587d812901&seekm=ilusmlc3r4y.fsf%40extundo.com&frame=off
has the thread with the (minimal) discussion on this.
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David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
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