From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15669: 24.2; smtpmail asks for password for anonymous logins Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:11:51 +0100 Message-ID: <21094.49127.199000.375176@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <21092.55630.375000.739573@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87bo2hmoed.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382465542 5491 80.91.229.3 (22 Oct 2013 18:12:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15669@debbugs.gnu.org, Uday S Reddy To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 22 20:12:25 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VYgRK-0006Gm-Th for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:12:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46135 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYgRK-00074H-Dh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:12:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYgR9-00073y-Kd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:12:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYgR0-0006pX-Sh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:49860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYgR0-0006pS-O3 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VYgR0-00044u-CS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:12:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Uday S Reddy Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:12:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15669 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 15669-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B15669.138246551615662 (code B ref 15669); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 18:12:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 15669) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Oct 2013 18:11:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35646 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VYgQt-00044X-Or for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:11:55 -0400 Original-Received: from sun60.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.128.137]:35732) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VYgQr-00044M-6R for 15669@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:11:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun60.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1VYgQp-00006k-PC; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:11:51 +0100 Original-Received: from mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.192.53]) by bham.ac.uk (envelope-from ) with esmtp (Exim 4.72) id 1VYgQp-0007TU-FE using interface smart1.bham.ac.uk; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:11:51 +0100 Original-Received: from acws-0068.cs.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.194.56]) by mx1.cs.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1VYgQp-0006Fd-Ju; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 19:11:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87bo2hmoed.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:79503 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > I don't think `anonymous' is a special user name for SMTP, right? We > should really be looking at the SMTP response? It probably is a special user name. I don't know. I think you just need to preserve the old behavior of smtpmail. Whatever it was doing earlier (in 23.X) was fine. Is the comment in the code your writing? I think it is making a wrong assumption. If `user' is "anonymous", that doesn't mean that the user has stored his user name. The string "anonymous" is getting generated somewhere within smtpmail, along with a nil password. > Can you use any password or does it have be empty? It seemed as if the password that I typed didn't matter. Cheers, Uday