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Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo
From: |
Ted Zlatanov |
Subject: |
Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:41:08 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:08:30 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:21:36 -0500
>>
>> I don't think the SMTP interaction should not be the critical factor
>> here. The SMTP library should deal with invalid (for SMTP) characters
>> on its side; many other libraries and protocols use `auth-source-search'
>> that can handle non-ASCII characters. In other words, let's not limit
>> the capabilities of `auth-source-search' just because one of the users
>> can't handle non-ASCII.
>>
>> I think authinfo/netrc files should be portable and support Unicode in a
>> way that enables other (older or new!) software to use them too. IMHO
>> enforcing UTF-8 encoding is the best way to achieve that.
EZ> Fine with me, but then Someoneā¢ should simultaneously modify smtpmail
EZ> (and perhaps also other users of authinfo) to DTRT when communicating
EZ> with the SMTP server, whatever "TRT" may mean in this case. Do one,
EZ> but not the other, and we will have a bug waiting to happen on our
I have a pretty good handle on the `auth-source-search' users in the
Emacs space. More importantly, this makes no difference on the API
user's side. With raw-text they also get potentially unsafe characters,
right? We're just going to enforce UTF-8 as the non-ASCII encoding and
in the case of ASCII data UTF-8 is the same as unencoded.
Could you help me (or point me to the right examples) to:
- always create/write a file in UTF-8 on every platform
- opportunistically open the file in binary, raw-text, UTF-8, etc. on
every platform
I'll use your suggestions in auth-source.el's authinfo/netrc backend.
Thanks
Ted
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/10
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/25
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/25
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/25
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/25
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo,
Ted Zlatanov <=
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2011/09/26
- Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/09/26