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Hi everyone, when creating an `EmailTask` what is the `EMAIL_USERNAME` and `EMAIL_PASSWORD` used for? Are the notifications shipped from this email? Is this required, or is it possible to use the default <mailto:notifications@prefect.io|notifications@prefect.io> email address <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/tasks/notifications.html#emailtask|shown in the class definition>?

I don’t think you can use the `<mailto:notifications@prefect.io|notifications@prefect.io>`. Those are to authenticate to an email account that would send the message from

So you set those as Secrets and Prefect will fetch them as it uses the task