Tickets :: Comment on [#12255] SMTP authentication broken

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Comment	>> I don't agree with this. We don't do this with ANY other >> authentication driver (e.g., if using imap authentication we don't >> use these credentials for any other reason except authentication). >> Authentication setup should be completely separate from mailer setup. > > Straight from the Wiki: > > Can IMP be used with SMTP authentication? > > Horde and IMP can support SMTP authentication, but only if the SMTP > server take the same authentication credentials as the POP/IMAP > server (which would generally be the case) or the same set of > credentials for ever user. Simply edit the Horde configuration as per > the comments in the Mailer tab of the setup interface. > > So far (Horde-5.0.4 and earlier) this has worked fine. If you enter > 'username' and 'password', these will be used for all users, if you > leave them blank, the credentials used for logging in will be used. > > But as I wrote before, this will still work in IMP-6.1.0beta, but > this now requires setting up the 'smtp' array in > 'imp/config/backends.local.php'. I asked on the mailinglist if this > was the new/preferred way of doing this, but Jan replied the above > method should still work and this was a bug. Therefor I submitted > this report. Feel free to close this bug report if you think > otherwise, since what I intend to do still works, but requires now a > different way of configuring it. > >> Which makes sense. Imagine a scenario where you authenticate to a >> SMTP server for Horde authentication, but don't need any >> authentication for SMTP mailing. If you automatically populate this >> field with authentication credentials, as you suggest, this is not >> possible. > > The above makes zero sense to me. Why would anyone bother to setup > authentication on a SMTP server, but not require it for relaying mail?
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