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| author | Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2011-07-07 13:18:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> | 2011-07-07 13:18:17 +0200 |
| commit | e2430e3119fa516d75b026863a4b67238c388888 (patch) | |
| tree | a47d05f55e7f29f2ef0aabb2a69b86eff0f8e938 | |
| parent | c2f9aec8b46cfa648c9768a0e6574d43d604eb2c (diff) | |
| download | emacs-e2430e3119fa516d75b026863a4b67238c388888.tar.gz | |
* NEWS: Clarify `smtpmail-auth-credentials' non-existence.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 26 |
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index f2098dc210d..cd035a4d7c9 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2011-07-07 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> + + * NEWS: Clarify `smtpmail-auth-credentials' non-existence. + 2011-07-07 Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> * themes/dichromacy-theme.el: @@ -124,16 +124,30 @@ possible, and uses the auth-source framework for getting credentials. The rewrite should be largely compatible with previous versions of smtpmail, but there are two major incompatibilities: -** `smtpmail-auth-credentials' no longer exists. That variable could -be either ~/.authinfo (in which case you're fine -- you won't see any +** `smtpmail-auth-credentials' no longer exists. That variable used +to be be either ~/.authinfo (in which case you won't see any difference), but if it were a direct list of user names and passwords, -you will be prompted for the user name and the password instead, and -they will then be saved to ~/.authinfo. +it will be ignored, and you will be prompted for the user name and the +password instead. They will then be saved to ~/.authinfo. + +If you wish to copy over all the credentials from +`smtpmail-auth-credentials' to your ~/.authinfo file manually, instead +of letting smtpmail prompt you for these values, that's also possible. + +If you had, for instance, + +(setq smtpmail-auth-credentials + '(("mail.example.org" 25 "jim" "s!cret"))) + +then the equivalent line in ~/.authinfo would be + +machine mail.example.org port 25 login jim password s!cret ** Similarly, `smtpmail-starttls-credentials' no longer exists. If -you had thet set, then then you need to put +you had that set, then then you need to put -machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert "~/.my_smtp_tls.cert" +machine smtp.whatever.foo port 25 key "~/.my_smtp_tls.key" cert +"~/.my_smtp_tls.cert" in your ~/.authinfo file instead. |