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