From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: jpewhacker@gmail.com
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: explicitly disable authentication
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:53:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cR27mPmH+0oeT+2T878K-cBNqBnxPUumETnVK1cvz2qnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181018211527.25597-1-JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 5:16 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@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 <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-18 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-18 21:15 [PATCH] send-email: explicitly disable authentication Joshua Watt
2018-10-18 21:53 ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2018-10-18 22:01 ` Joshua Watt
2018-10-19 14:10 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-10-22 17:52 ` [PATCH v2] " Joshua Watt
2018-10-22 18:03 ` Joshua Watt
2018-10-23 0:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-23 2:40 ` Joshua Watt
2018-10-23 3:24 ` [PATCH v3] " Joshua Watt
2018-10-25 9:43 ` Junio C Hamano
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