smtp problem

[Gerhard Häring]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
> huber wrote:
>> 
>> strange smtp behavior :
>> 
>> send: 'auth login\r\n'
>> reply: '334 VXNlcm5hbWU6\r\n'
>> reply: retcode (334); Msg: VXNlcm5hbWU6
>> send: 'userid_base64\n\r\n'
>> reply: '334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6\r\n'
>> reply: retcode (334); Msg: UGFzc3dvcmQ6
>> send: 'passwd_base64\n\r\n'
>> reply: '501 malformed auth input (#5.5.4)\r\n'
>> 
>> does someone know what's going wrong ?
> 
> No, but I think the extra newline in the last two
> commands to the server look very suspicious. [...]

Good catch :-) Naively using base64.encodestring was exactly the problem
which was fixed in 2.2.2.

Cheers,

Gerhard
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