On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 17:53 -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:16 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhac...@gmail.com> > 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.
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)? Or maybe --no-smtp-auth is just a shorthand alias for --smtp-auth=none? > > > The value 'none' is lower case to avoid conflicts with any RFC 4422 > > authentication mechanisms. > > > > Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <jpewhac...@gmail.com> -- Joshua Watt <jpewhac...@gmail.com>
