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

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Comment	>>>> 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? >> >> Agreed. If people don't want to use authentication, they don't have >> to. If they need per-user authentication for SMTP, using the current >> authentication credentials is the only thing that makes sense. > > Totally irrelevant. We should never be in the business of > "assuming" that's what an admin wants. You could very well "assume" > that they used SMTP authentication simply because it is dirt easy to > setup. But I don't see how this has any connection to SMTP sending > configuration unless and until they make it so. > > Not to mention that it also potentially makes sense to allow any > authentication credentials to be used as the SMTP authentication. > Why is SMTP special? > >> And >> it's worked this way since ever. > > If so, this is totally news to me. Especially since there is no > documentation about this in the config file (any mention of this > buried deep within a wiki entry is definitely not canon). > > I don't object to adding this - or at a minimum clearly documenting > the behavior in the conf.php file. But as mentioned above, this has > absolutely nothing to do with Horde SMTP authentication. This needs > to work independent of the Horde authentication backend.
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