SASL library as XEmacs package

[Simon Josefsson]

Daiki Ueno <ueno at unixuser.org> writes:

>> I first made a XEmacs package out of FLIM, but it turned out the SMTP
>> code in FLIM conflicts with mail-lib, so it isn't such a good idea to
>> have whole of FLIM packaged.  The SASL library would still be useful
>> to have as a package though.
>
> I'm just curious about what part is really conflicting with mail-lib's
> smtpmail.el.

Honestly I didn't investigate the situation carefully, I only noticed
there were some heavy changes to smtp*.el.  I think when I get time to
look at it more carefully, and the SASL package is present and
accepted in Emacs and XEmacs, I'll incorporate the FLIM smtp*.el
changes into smtpmail.el to get the improved SASL support.

Another problem was the dependencies on other libraries, like luna and
mel and APEL, neither of which seems to be very documented and easy to
understand (to me).

> If it matters that there are some variables renamed from smtpmail-*
> to smtp-* (e.g. smtpmail-default-server), we shall prepare aliases
> for them with using delegate.el:
>
> <http://cvs.m17n.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/chise/delegate.el?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain>.