Re: emacs MUAs with working smtp authentication?

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

  >> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 31
  >> Aug 2006 12:11:53 +0100
  >> 
  >> First, the protocol. SMTP uses tls for encryption.

  Eli> The OP didn't mention encryption.  If he did, I would have
  Eli> understood the difficulties.  But he only mentioned
  Eli> authentication, which I use on my system without any
  Eli> significant problems.


I am reading between the lines. There are many forms of
authentication, many of which smtpmail supports. In my experience,
however, the move toward secure channels to SMTP servers is gathering
pace -- the only surprise for me is that it took so long. 

So, I suspect that the OP was talking about SSL/TLS. But he may not
have been. 


  Eli> Same here: anything that is unclear in the docs is a bug that
  Eli> should be fixed.  Reporting this on emacs-devel will cause the
  Eli> maintainer DTRT.

Yes, you are right. I should have just done this. 


  >> Finally, it doesn't seem to work on windows. I spent three hours
  >> with a debugger a couple of days ago -- I figured this was the
  >> only way to see if I had the configuration right. It appears that
  >> starttls.el uses Unix specific process handling, so won't work
  >> with NTEmacs.

  Eli> I think you are right, but I don't use the TLS encryption in my
  Eli> setup.

I have found a hack to fix this now (which isn't pretty!). I'll try it
out in a few days time.

Cheers

Phil

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