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29.4; Invalid authinfo credentials when sending mail through SMTP

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: 8dcc <8dcc.lists <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 78996 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78996: 29.4;
 Invalid authinfo credentials when sending mail through SMTP
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:07:57 +0300

> From: 8dcc <8dcc.lists <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:58:47 +0200
> 
> I have been trying to write a simple Emacs Lisp function that lets me
> select the credentials that are used when sending mail through
> `compose-mail' with `message-send-mail-function' set to
> `smtpmail-send-it'. I tried many things, including modifying the "From:"
> field, and changing `user-mail-address' (both locally and
> globally). Although the "From" header does indeed change to the right
> value when sending the email, the credentials used when authenticating
> with the SMTP server don't change; in the case of Gmail, this "From"
> header gets overwritten and a new "X-Google-Original-From" header is
> added.
> 
> I thought that the email that was used for authentication was the one I
> had originally set as `user-mail-address', but it turns out that it
> entirely depends on the order of the entries in my '~/authinfo.gpg'
> file.
> 
> For example, if the contents of the file were:
> 
>     machine 127.0.0.1 login my-user port ssh password "****"
>     machine smtp.gmail.com login foo <at> gmail.com password "****" port 465
>     machine smtp.gmail.com login bar <at> gmail.com password "****" port 465
> 
> Then the credentials of "foo <at> gmail.com" would be used, since it's the
> first line whose "machine" value matches the value of my
> `smtpmail-smtp-server' variable.
> 
> Please let me know if you need any more information.

My reading of smtpmail.el is that you should set the value of
smtpmail-smtp-user to control the selection of credentials by login
name.  Did you try that?

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