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bug#15669: 24.2; smtpmail asks for password for anonymous logins
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#15669: 24.2; smtpmail asks for password for anonymous logins |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:05:46 +1100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> I use an SMTP server that uses anonymous login with no password. With Emacs
>> 24.2, with auth-sources loaded, I find that sending a message through
>> mail-mode asks for a password. No password should be required for anonymous
>> login. This problem did not occur with Emacs 23.
>>
>> Looking through the code, I trace the problem to the function
>> `smtpmail-try-auth-methods' which has the comment
>>
>> ;; The user has stored the user name, but not the password, so
>> ;; ask for the password, even if we're not forcing that through
>> ;; `ask-for-password'.
>>
>> This code is getting fired even when `user' has the value "anonymous".
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this error. Are you still seeing it in Emacs 25?
More information was requested, but no response was given within a few
months, so I'm closing this bug report. If the problem still exists,
please reopen this bug report.
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