Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > have you tried setting it to an empty value? That sounds like a useful thing in general even outside override context. I however suspect that the code is not written carefully to check for empty string (which cannot possibly mean any valid username). Perhaps we would need something like this. git-send-email.perl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index ce569a9..7c3f7c1 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ X-Mailer: git-send-email $gitversion defined $smtp_server_port ? "port=$smtp_server_port" : ""; } - if (defined $smtp_authuser) { + if (defined $smtp_authuser && $smtp_authuser ne '') { if (!defined $smtp_authpass) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html