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

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Oct 19, 2018, 14:10 UTC
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 6:02 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2018-10-18 at 17:53 -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:16 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com>
> > 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.
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