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

[Uday S Reddy]

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