Emacs 23 Gnus mail always asks password

[teledyn]

Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot

In 7.10, using Gnus in Emacs-GTK (emacs-snapshot) I would only be asked to give the SMTP password on the first email of a new session. In 8.04, I am asked on every outgoing email.

just a guess, but this suggests there was some location being used to store that password which is no longer supported and no alternative was set in the new distribution files.

[teledyn (garym-teledyn)]

my outgoing emails are to gmail.com, so that may imply that the Smptmail emacs package is being used, and given there were changes to starttls, could there now be a mismatch in there somewhere?

[Phil Sung (psung)]

Looks like this happens because smtpmail.el was recently changed to use the password-cache facility. The variable `password-cache-expiry' can be used to control the amount of time passwords are saved.

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

teledyn: can you confirm that setting the password-cache-expiry variable fixes your problem?

[teledyn (garym-teledyn)]

password-cache-expiry is saved and set at Never, and the problem
persists.

>>>>> "A" == Adam Collard <email address hidden> writes:

    A> teledyn: can you confirm that setting the password-cache-expiry
    A> variable fixes your problem?

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[teledyn (garym-teledyn)]

I just re-saved the variable and so far it has worked three times in
a row! thanks for the tip. I'll open another ticket if it turns out
to be sporadic; it was reliable before, so perhaps now it is fixed.

>>>>> "A" == Adam Collard <email address hidden> writes:

    A> teledyn: can you confirm that setting the password-cache-expiry
    A> variable fixes your problem?

    A> ** Changed in: emacs-snapshot (Ubuntu) Status: New =>
    A> Incomplete

    A> -- Emacs 23 Gnus mail always asks password
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