GNU bug report logs - #31990
26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>

Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 23:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 26359, 35682

Found in versions 25.2, 26.1, 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #62 received at 31990 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Live System User <nyc4bos <at> aol.com>
Cc: 31990 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#31990: 26.1; Stuck in loop trying to send bug report
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:21:33 -0400

Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> 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".
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