Re: Multiple sources and accounts with GNUS

[Tassilo Horn]

Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@users.sf.net> writes:

Hi Yuri,

>> > 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.

Ah, sorry.  I didn't realize that you want to use msmtp.  I use plain
`smtpmail-send-it', and that uses auth-sources.el to get the
user/password from ~/.authinfo.gpg.

>> 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?

Hm, dunno.  I have to admit, that I don't really have a clue about the
SMTP protocol an STARTTLS, but that's a snippet from my SMTP trace
buffer.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
220 deliver.uni-koblenz.de ESMTP Postfix
EHLO thinkpad
250-deliver.uni-koblenz.de
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 70000000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250 8BITMIME
AUTH PLAIN SOMEHEXHASHCODE
235 Authentication successful
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Bye,
Tassilo