Tim McNamara wrote: <snip>
That looks pretty much just like mine, albeit I use a different ISP that also requires SMTP authorization. The only difference between entering your credentials into Emacs/Gnus versus most other mail programs is that you write the file directly rather than indirectly, so you can actually see it. That doesn't necessarily make it any less secure.
I don't follow. When I set the password to nil and gnus prompts me for it, as far as I can see the password never appears in plain text. As you point out, when you put it in your .emacs or .gnus file, it is in plain text. Isn't having a password in plain text less secure? I admit, the risk is probably low and limited to a clever spybot reading my config file, but from a software design perspective, requiring passwords to be in plain text in a file is a bad thing.
But, I don't believe that's the intention in smtpmail. It seems clear that it's designed to prompt for a password and do the right thing. It's just not working that way - at least not for me.
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