No Auth type None in email communication (PMM 2.15.1)

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) PMM 2.x
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Hi,

i’ve installed PMM 2.15.1 as OVA image.
tried to configure Internal Alerting with email Communication channel.

comparing to screenshots in How-to guide, currently Communication settings for email do not offer ‘Auth Type’ option (was: none, plain, login, cram-md5).
Instead, there are Identity and Secret options. Is there any way to enforce None for smtp authentication? what auth option is currently in use ?

i observe smtp traffic as below and assume PMM mailclient just refuses to proceed without authentication, since i did not configure any username/password/identity/secret fields - is this correct assumption ?

mailserver:
220 fr712usmtp1 ESMTP Thu, 8 Apr 2021 08:19:47 GMT
percona client:
EHLO percona
maileserver:
250-fr712usmtp1 Hello [10.31.131.10], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 36700160
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
percona client:
QUIT
mailserver:
221 2.0.0 fr712usmtp1 closing connection

any advices are welcomed.

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update:
seems working with no authentication as well.
i had to correct format of ‘From’ parameter value to follow full pattern: name@domain.com
for some reason i though name would be taken from ‘hello’ field

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Thank you for sharing your results.

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This is being fixed in the next release so that it’s easier to implement…you’ll first be able to choose your auth type and then fill in username/password (only if needed). That version has gone into final testing (or will first thing in the morning) so expect it to be available next week after it passes all tests! We do appreciate the feedback though, confirms we needed to fix it!

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