From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:58:12 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Clarify auth-source in conjuction with smtpmail in NEWS. X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-24.0.93~198 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ffdcbd1c7b9d74cffb1ddd90753425de3cdd110e;p=emacs.git Clarify auth-source in conjuction with smtpmail in NEWS. --- diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index 64479f7987f..758025c6c3e 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2011-12-10 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen + + * NEWS: Mention auth-source twice in connection with smtpmail to + clarify that smtpmail uses auth-source. + 2011-11-20 Bill Wohler Release MH-E version 8.3.1. diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index fe481c4ed8f..7b778b64991 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -133,7 +133,10 @@ That variable used to have the default value "~/.authinfo", in which case you won't see any difference. But if you changed it to be a list of user names and passwords, that setting is now ignored; you will be prompted for the user name and the password, which will then be saved -to ~/.authinfo. +to ~/.authinfo. (To control where and how the credentials are stored, +see the auth-source manual. You may want to change the auth-source +preferences if you want to store the credentials encrypted, for +instance.) You can also manually copy the credentials to your ~/.authinfo file. For example, if you had