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bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:22:19 +0200 |
Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com> writes:
> Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Live System User <nyc4bos@aol.com> writes:
>>
>>>> Then how do you expect emacs to know that for those 2 particular
>>>> servers it should prompt straight away?
>>>
>>> Because (I believe) that the protocol requires a "password" or
>>> certificate.
>>
>> Thatʼs unfortunately not the way SMTP authentication works,
>
> I thought from my original message that you responded to that
> you understood that the "protocol" I'm referring to (above) is
> TLS (in conjunction with SMTP), not SMTP separately or in the
> absense of a TLS connection.
>
> Perhaps we are miscommunicating?
We are. Iʼm only talking about SMTP authentication, not TLS. Without
going back and rereading, my memory says that it turned out you were
not having a TLS issue.
>
>> itʼs very
>> much optional
>
> I believe that either a "password" or a certicate is needed
> to establish a TLS conection and not optional.
>
You need a certificate on the server side for TLS. For SMTP auth you
need a password. The two are completely separate protocols.
>> (and some servers change their authentication
>> requirements based on the recipient of the mail youʼre trying to
>> send).
>
> Are we still talking about TLS connectons?
>
> Unless there is NO authenication required, a changed authenication
> requirement is still an authenication requiring a "password" or
> certificate if it involves TLS, nonetheless.
>
> That valid "password" can even be blank, an email address or anything
> (including the recipient) depending on the server's valid authenication
> method.
>
> I'm saying that I believe the SSL/TLS or STARTTLS protocols require
> a "password" or certficate. Are you saying that's incorrect or it's
> not necessarily so?
>>
As noted above, Iʼm only talking about SMTP authentication.
Robert
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, (continued)
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/10
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Live System User, 2018/08/10
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/08/10
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Live System User, 2018/08/10
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Robert Pluim, 2018/08/20
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Noam Postavsky, 2018/08/20
- bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Live System User, 2018/08/20
bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report, Live System User, 2018/08/09