Re: mail rmail gnus on w32

[John Paul Wallington]

"B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@peoplepc.com> writes:

>> If you need to specify a password for your SMTP server then you could
>> try also seeting the variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials', eg:
>>
>> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>>       '(("servername" 25 "username" "password"))) *************
>
> * But then the password exists on the system in plaintext, doesn't it? I
> am using w32 build, ver. 21.3 on w98.

The password element of `smtpmail-auth-credentials' can be nil -
meaning to query the user when necessary - rather than the password as
a string.  The variable itself can be an .authinfo/.netrc filename
instead of a list of values.  See C-h v smtpmail-auth-credentials.