Peter:
> The SASL_README doc has a section about doing a telnet test of a PLAIN
> SASL authentication. There are some methods suggested for generating
> the base64 hash required to do the authentication, Of those two methods
> one requires downloading a special utility to generate the auth string
> and the other requires installing a perl module. I have a third suggestion:
>
> echo -ne '\000username\000password' | openssl base64
>
> This method is relatively easy to do, and will work with the programs
> that are already readily available on most systems. I think it would be
> good to add it to the docs.
This does not work for me. If you make a suggestion, be sure
to indicate what platform and shell this applies to.
Wietse
