Subject: Re: bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:21:33 -0400

Robert Pluim <[email-masked]> writes:

>>>>   Unfortunately, no, as there is only the variable `smtpmail-smtp-user'
>>>>   and no "smtpmail-smtp-password"-like variable...
>>>
>>> Then perhaps we should add them.
>
> And then people go 'but I want different values for different
> accounts', and weʼre back at the .authinfo solution.

Maybe an auth-source-backend which stores to an Emacs variable?  It
could be independently useful as a sort of "simplest example of an
auth-source-backend".