bug#45711: 27.1; Ambiguous account match in .authinfo still used by smtpmail

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:12:09 +1100 Duncan Bayne <duncan@bayne.id.au> wrote: 

DB> I think the correct behaviour here would be to have smtpmail to refuse
DB> to send if there's an ambiguous account match in .authinfo.  I can't
DB> off-hand think of a single case where I'd *want* it to just take the
DB> first matching account where there are several possibilities.

I think it's common to have more specific matches on top, and less
specific matches down the list. That's why returning the first one makes
sense, and potentially there's always an ambiguous entry. It would break
such setups to do what you're suggesting.

Ted