[Tickets #12255] Re: SMTP authentication broken

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/12255
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  Ticket             | 12255
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | SMTP authentication broken
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | 6.1.0beta2
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Feedback
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2013-05-18 13:13) wrote:

>>> 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.