Introduces the ability to use anonymous SMTP authentication where no username or password is provided.
Also introduces a new flag to disable TLS avoiding cases also where STARTTLS is used despite `secure` being
set to `false`
This change actually makes the authoring flow work for
the most part by tying in emailing and more.
We have also done a number of quality of life updates to
simplify the codebase overall making it easier to continue
work on the refresh.
