SMTP Authentication

[Gerhard Häring]

In article <87eld1mph7.fsf at nospam.eml.cc>, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote:
> Gerhard Häring <gerhard.haering at gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> SMTP AUTH _is_ the standard smtp login and is what the login method
>> of the SMTP objects use. There are some problems in Python 2.2.x,
>> which are addressed by a patch of mine that you were already
>> referred to. You can get a Python 2.2 backport of this patch at
>> http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/VitaminP
> 
> Does the authentication mechanism support cram-md5 or digest-md5 ?

CRAM-MD5, PLAIN and LOGIN.

DIGEST-MD5 was too much effort to implement for me.  It be probably be a
good idea to create a Python-SASL binding to get access to more complicated
AUTH mechanisms like DIGEST-MD5.

Gerhard
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