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smtpmail.el doesn't retry with authentication when greylisting is used

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 30347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  Rainer Orth <ro <at> CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Subject: bug#30347: smtpmail.el doesn't retry with authentication when greylisting is used
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 22:49:24 +0200

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> Because Emacs doesn't know that the user has a password entry in
>> ~/.authinfo.gpg until the user has type the password.  (If the user is
>> using password-protected ~/.authinfo files without a password agent,
>> that is.)
>
> Ah, people who like typing passwords all the time. I see your point, though.

So I think this isn't something we should try to automate -- the user
will just have to specify that the SMTP connection uses a password.  (I
think that's pretty common for mail user agents.)  So I'm closing this
bug report as a "wontfix".

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