Title: Authentication enabled without username password
Last modified: November 14, 2017

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# Authentication enabled without username password

 *  Resolved [brus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brus/)
 * (@brus)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-enabled-without-username-password/)
 * Hi
    Is it normal if it’s working with option Authentication enabled and empty
   password? I have set username but password field i leave empty/blank. Email sending
   working well – tested. How it’s possible? I saw here many question about unhidden
   password in plain text but the password is not require (on my hosting).

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 *  Plugin Author [Slava Abakumov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slaffik/)
 * (@slaffik)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-enabled-without-username-password/#post-9684407)
 * It all depends on the settings of the SMTP gateway of either your email provider
   or your hosting. So it’s a norm, but very specific to you, so for others it may
   not work.

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 * Last reply from: [Slava Abakumov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slaffik/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-enabled-without-username-password/#post-9684407)
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