Re: Committing new smtpmail.el later tonight

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:52:19 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:01:33 +0200
>> 
>> `smtpmail-auth-credentials' no longer exists.  That variable could be
>> either ~/.authinfo (in which case you're fine -- you won't see any
>> difference), or it could be:
>> 
>> - ;;(setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>> - ;;      '(("YOUR SMTP HOST" 25 "username" "password")))
>> 
>> If you had that, you will be prompted for a user name and a password,
>> which will then be saved in ~/.authinfo.

EZ> Why do we have to have this incompatibility?  Why cannot
EZ> smtpmail-auth-credentials continue be supported, in addition to the
EZ> new ~/.authinfo?  E.g., note the value of the variable and
EZ> automatically write ~/.authinfo?

I think that leaves `smtpmail-auth-credentials' in place, where it will
confuse the user.  So IMO the conversion should also unset
`smtpmail-auth-credentials'.

I don't know if the extra work is worthwhile, though.  The conversion is
trivial and maybe should simply be explained in the auth-source manual.

Ted