> To help debug this, you may want to try the following. > > 1) Copy smptlib.py into your local directory. On my > box, you can find it here, or import sys; print > sys.path to help find it on your box: > > /usr/local/lib/python2.3 > > 2) Go the login() method, add some print statements > there to see what's going on. > > I admit to not being an SMTP expert nor fully > understanding the code at first glance, but here is > some code iin smtplib.py that suggests you're close to > getting this working, to the extent that your server > wants base64 encoding: > > def encode_cram_md5(challenge, user, > password): > challenge = base64.decodestring(challenge) > response = user + " " + > hmac.HMAC(password, challenge).hexdigest() > return encode_base64(response, eol="") > > Hope this helps.
Thanks Steve, that helped a lot. smtplib was trying to a CRAM-MD5 auth which wasn't working. I don't know why. But when I made it do a LOGIN auth by changing its preferred_auth list, it worked. Login has its own preferred list of auth methods which is nice except that not all servers which advertise a particular method may be capable of handling that. It would have been good if there was optionally a way to specify in login() what method to use. For now, I am simply going to derive SMTP to form a class that does LOGIN auth. Ram -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
