Re: Mac OS Keychain with SMTP

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:56:26 +1000 Paul Rankin <paul@tilk.co> wrote: 

PR> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:15:15 +1000 Paul Rankin <paul@tilk.co> wrote: 
>> 
PR> I'd like to eschew an .authinfo file in favour of the Mac OS Keychain
PR> but can't seem to get it going. I keep receiving the error:
>> 
PR> auth-source-macos-keychain-search: The MacOS Keychain auth-source
PR> backend doesn't support creation yet
>> 
>> Please see Emacs bug#19074: Bug in auth-source.el's search of OS X
>> Keychain at 
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-11/msg00805.html
>> 
>> There's a patch there which I haven't been able to test.  If you could,
>> please try it and let me know your experience (in the bug thread or
>> here).  You will have to pre-create your security tokens in the Mac
>> OS X, since creating them through auth-source.el is not supported yet.

PR> I applied the patch and can now successfully use SMTP with a password
PR> without an .authinfo file.

Cool.  Would you like to update the auth.texi manual to help fellow Mac
OS X users with some guidelines and the note below?

PR> One further problem I had was that `auth-source.el` seems to always
PR> query `security` with a port number, and I hadn't added a port number to
PR> the keychain item in question, so, in Keychain Access.app

PR>     Where: smtp://mail.example.com:465

PR> fixed the problem.

Great!

PR> This is probably a silly question, but if I don't want to mess with my
PR> Emacs distribution, I should just put the patched version of
PR> `auth-source-macos-keychain-search-items` into my init file right?

Yes, temporarily.  I will apply that patch soon to emacs-24 and it will
get forward-ported to master as well.

Ted