Re: Multiple sources and accounts with GNUS

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:49:21 +0100
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:

> Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net> writes:
> 
> > msmtp is a nice solution, but I don't really want to store the
> > password on disk (typing at every message is not a nice solution
> > either).
> 
> You can save it encrypted in ~/.authinfo.gpg.

Just to clarify, my understanding is that msmtp wouldn't read an encrypted 
authinfo file.

> > I tried to go with the smtpmail route, but failed quickly.
> >
> > I have an SMTP server that requires encryption via STARTTLS on port
> > 25.
> 
> Looking at the trace buffer of my last SMTP session, that uses STARTTLS,
> too.  I have the credentials for the server in ~/.authinfo.gpg and
> didn't setup anything special about how to use STARTTLS...

In my case, LOGIN is only advertised after STARTTLS, maybe that makes some 
difference?