Re: [PATCH] send-email: explicitly disable authentication

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:16 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It can be necessary to disable SMTP authentication by a mechanism other
> than sendemail.smtpuser being undefined. For example, if the user has
> sendemail.smtpuser set globally but wants to disable authentication
> locally in one repository.
>
> --smtp-auth and sendemail.smtpauth now understand the value 'none' which
> means to disable authentication completely, even if an authentication
> user is specified.

Implementation complexity aside, spelling the option --no-smtp-auth
might be more intuitive and consistent than --smtp-auth=none.

> The value 'none' is lower case to avoid conflicts with any RFC 4422
> authentication mechanisms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@xxxxxxxxx>



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