This article document the inability to use anonymous authentication for SMTP settings in FlexNet Code Insight 2017 R3
Symptoms
Anonymous authentication cannot be used for SMTP settings in FlexNet Code Insight 2017 R3
Resolution
A bug for this behavior was submitted to our Engineering team under reference SCA-3382. The ability to use anonymous authentication in the SMTP configuration through FlexNet Code Insight was added to FlexNet Code Insight 2018 R1.