bug#15669: 24.2; smtpmail asks for password for anonymous logins

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@cs.bham.ac.uk> writes:

> I use an SMTP server that uses anonymous login with no password.  With Emacs
> 24.2, with auth-sources loaded, I find that sending a message through
> mail-mode asks for a password.  No password should be required for anonymous
> login.  This problem did not occur with Emacs 23.
>
> Looking through the code, I trace the problem to the function
> `smtpmail-try-auth-methods' which has the comment
>
>       ;; The user has stored the user name, but not the password, so
>       ;; ask for the password, even if we're not forcing that through
>       ;; `ask-for-password'.
>
> This code is getting fired even when `user' has the value "anonymous".

I'm unable to reproduce this error.  Are you still seeing it in Emacs 25?

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