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Re: mail rmail gnus on w32
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John Paul Wallington |
Subject: |
Re: mail rmail gnus on w32 |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:44:49 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) |
"B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@peoplepc.com> writes:
>> If you need to specify a password for your SMTP server then you could
>> try also seeting the variable `smtpmail-auth-credentials', eg:
>>
>> (setq smtpmail-auth-credentials
>> '(("servername" 25 "username" "password"))) *************
>
> * But then the password exists on the system in plaintext, doesn't it? I
> am using w32 build, ver. 21.3 on w98.
The password element of `smtpmail-auth-credentials' can be nil -
meaning to query the user when necessary - rather than the password as
a string. The variable itself can be an .authinfo/.netrc filename
instead of a list of values. See C-h v smtpmail-auth-credentials.