Sending mail to an SMTP server that requires POP authentication ?

[Paul Osman]

    I too found this problem... I have an SMTP server at my work that 
requires authentication.. now the version of smtplib I was using had a 
login method, which took a username and password as its arguments, but I 
kept getting an SMTPException: No suitable authentication method was 
found. I spent a good half hour talking back and forth with the server, 
and I recall that I tried a few things (can't remember at the moment) 
but no matter what i did, i couldn't get it to authenticate... I ended 
up doing the damn thing in perl <shutter> which had an auth method that 
worked. Has anybody found a solution for this? Is there a patch 
available? If so, please let me know because I'd love to remove all the 
perl scripts I had to write from action and replace them with python..

-Paul

Gillou wrote:

>With this kind of server, only holders of a pop account can send mail
>through SMTP using their POP credentials.
>
>I did not find how to do this with smtplib.
>
>Did someone succeed ? How ?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>--Gilles
>glenfant AT bigfoot DOT com
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