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

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 6:02 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 17:53 -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:16 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > Implementation complexity aside, spelling the option --no-smtp-auth
> > might be more intuitive and consistent than --smtp-auth=none.
>
> One advantage of --smtp-auth=none is that it can also be done with a
> config variable sendemail.smtpauth="none". Would be also add a config
> variable like sendemail.nosmtpauth (the negative seems strange to me)?

I would not expect to see a "negating" config variable like that. I
was just suggesting that a "--no-*" command-line option might be more
intuitive.

> Or maybe --no-smtp-auth is just a shorthand alias for --smtp-auth=none?

That's one possibility.



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel Development]     [Gcc Help]     [IETF Annouce]     [DCCP]     [Netdev]     [Networking]     [Security]     [V4L]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux SCSI]     [Fedora Users]

  Powered by Linux