Re: Authenticated SMTP with RMAIL under Windows

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> In <Xns9558D99FB1A80wssddcgisnet@207.69.189.194> Bob Babcock wrote:

> EarthLink says that they will be switching to "Authenticated SMTP (ASMTP)" 
> later this year.  Can emacs rmail do this under Windows 2000?  
> Alternatively, is there a proxy I can put between emacs and the network to 
> do this?  (I've already got a spam-filtering proxy on the pop side of the 
> connection.)  Thanks for any info.

One way is to use smtpmail.el which supports SMTP AUTH and
STARTTLS.  You can find a hint in the beginning of the
lisp/mail/smtpmail.el file.  My setting for that at home is as
follows:

(setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
      '(("mail.jpl.org" 25 "yamaoka" "password")))
(setq smtpmail-starttls-credentials
      '(("mail.jpl.org" 25 nil nil)))

Unfortunately those features aren't supported by the smtpmail.el
module which is contained in the released Emacs versions, and I
don't know when the next Emacs is released.