smtplib and SSL

[Gerhard Häring]

Mike Prager wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 01:03:56 +0200, Gerhard Häring
> <gh at ghaering.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Michael Prager wrote:
>>
>>>I have looked through Google groups and am not sure if this
>>>question has been answered before (by "Windows Python does not
>>>yet include SSL support.") [...]
>>
>>Install my _socket.pyd binary for Python 2.2.x 
>>http://pypgsql.sourceforge.net/misc/python-ssl.html to get SSL support 
>>on Windows.
>>
>>-- Gerhard
> 
> 
> Gerhard, thank you!  That works.
> 
> Perhaps you or someone else can help me a little further
> along.  When I try to login to the server with
> 
>     serv.login(uname, pwd)
> 
> I now get the error
> 
>   File "D:\python22\lib\smtplib.py", line 542, in login
>     raise SMTPException("No suitable authentication method
> found.")
> smtplib.SMTPException: No suitable authentication method
> found.

Please post the output of this script:

#v+
import smtplib

s = smtplib.SMTP("myserver")
s.debuglevel = 5
s.login("myusername", "mypassword")
#v-

> Being a user, not a TCP/IP programmer, I am baffled about what
> that means or what I can do to correct it.

You don't need to know TCP/IP. It sufficient if you know the SMTP 
protocol with the AUTH extension ;-)

-- Gerhard