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bug#30347: smtpmail.el doesn't retry with authentication when greylistin
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#30347: smtpmail.el doesn't retry with authentication when greylisting is used |
Date: |
Mon, 07 Sep 2020 22:49:24 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>> Because Emacs doesn't know that the user has a password entry in
>> ~/.authinfo.gpg until the user has type the password. (If the user is
>> using password-protected ~/.authinfo files without a password agent,
>> that is.)
>
> Ah, people who like typing passwords all the time. I see your point, though.
So I think this isn't something we should try to automate -- the user
will just have to specify that the SMTP connection uses a password. (I
think that's pretty common for mail user agents.) So I'm closing this
bug report as a "wontfix".
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