Notify extension: mail server capability problem?

[Kevin Bullock]

On Dec 14, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Yannick CHARLES wrote:

> Sorry for the quoting problem, and top-posting. Is it better like this ? :)

Yes, thanks :)

> My notify settings, and the [smtp] section, are in the repo's .hg/hgrc.
> 
> So I tried your suggestion by removing the smtp.password property
> (smtp.username is still defined though) and... it works.
> I thought I would have needed a valid username _and_ password in order
> for the smtp server to let Mercurial send mails (that's why my
> previous post may have seemed a bit confused), but it works like this.

It depends entirely on how your mail server is configured. Clearly yours is configured _not_ to require authentication to send mail (indeed, it doesn't even seem to support SMTP authentication). This isn't uncommon; SMTP didn't gain authentication support until several decades after it was in use.

You can likely remove the smtp.username setting as well.

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