bug#24274: 24.5; Use auth-source library for remote passwords in Rmail

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 19:30:43 +0000 Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> wrote: 

>> I've made an update (attached) to the previous patch.  I removed the
>> code indentation spaces and changed the docstring to be more
>> descriptive.  Also, I included a function check for the auth-source
>> password which was missing before.

Thank you!

IS>     We can call auth-source-forget+ if necessary once we figure it
IS>     out; just like it’s done in gnus/nnimap.el and mail/smtpmail.el.

Right, those are the typical uses of auth-source.

IS>     The auth-source library allows access to other backends beside
IS>     plain ~/.authinfo, which is why I think it makes sense to
IS>     mention the library by name here.  See the docstring for the
IS>     erc-autojoin-channels-alist variable for an example.

Agreed! The authinfo file *format* is a default, but there are actually
three of them: '("~/.authinfo" "~/.authinfo.gpg" "~/.netrc")

Thanks
Ted