Re: master 37f454f: Use auth-source for passwords in rmail

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 11:59:15 -0400 (EDT), larsi@gnus.org (Lars
> Ingebrigtsen) said:
>
>     Lars>      (if (not rmail-remote-password)
>     Lars> -   (setq rmail-remote-password
>     Lars> -         (read-passwd (if imap
>     Lars> -                          "IMAP password: "
>     Lars> -                        "POP password: "))))
>     Lars> +        (setq rmail-remote-password
>     Lars> +              (let ((found (nth 0 (auth-source-search
>     Lars> +                                   :max 1 :user user :host host
>     Lars> +                                   :require '(:secret)))))
>
> auth-source-search has a :create argument that would let you get rid
> of the 'read-passwd' stuff (the prompts go in
> 'auth-source-creation-prompts')

Makes sense, but I don't use rmail, so I thought it was safer just to
apply the tested patch.

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