Re: master 726b758: Allow direct choice of smtp authentication method

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:20:54 +0800, Andrew Cohen <cohen@bu.edu> said:

>>>>> "RP" == Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 00:30:10 -0400 (EDT), cohen@andy.bu.edu
    RP> I like it, but itʼs missing documentation and a NEWS entry.

    Andrew> Err, uhm, yeah. I think its too small a change for
    Andrew> NEWS. But it needs

Itʼs a new feature. However small, some people only look in NEWS for
new features.

    Andrew> documentation. I was going to do that, but ran into trouble: it 
properly
    Andrew> belongs in auth-source, and I just noticed that the auth-source
    Andrew> documentation is woefully out of date. For example, you can really 
only
    Andrew> effectively use :smtp-auth for a plstore, and auth-source doesn't 
even
    Andrew> mention plstore as one of its backends :(

How come? The .netrc/.authinfo backend returns all keywords when a
lookup succeeds, so adding ":smtp-auth super-sekrit-method" to an
entry works fine.

Robert