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

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 30347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Rainer Orth <ro <at> CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Subject: Re: bug#30347: smtpmail.el doesn't retry with authentication when
 greylisting is used
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:59:21 +0200

>>>>> On Mon, 07 Sep 2020 22:49:24 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> said:

    Lars> 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.

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

Didnʼt some bloke add smtpmail-servers-requiring-authorization just
for this kind of use-case?

Robert

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