Thanks to a comment from Ian Morris that credentials were exchanged in
base64 encoding, I investigated what data was actually passed.
I have recently changed my email password, and to add some special
characters, I added \\ to the end of the password string, forgetting
that in certain situations,
So Plain and Login are just two different ways of authentication with an
SMTP server; they serve the same purpose but different servers can, in
theory, offer different methods.
https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/e-mail/technical-matters/smtp-auth/
the ehlo shouldn't really matter, that's jus
smtp = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(SMTP_MAILSERVER)
smtp.login(SMTP_USER,SMTP_PASSWORD)
toaddrs = [send_to] + carboncopies
smtp.sendmail(send_from, toaddrs, msg.as_string())
smtp.close()
works for me. The mail server is siteground
(https://www.siteground.co.uk/); cou
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