Dear all, I am wanting to specify the authentication types for SMTP just like the user can for HTTP at present. So for example if the server responds with:
250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN But I explicitly want to use LOGIN I should be able to tell curl and libcurl to use that ;-) As I see it there are two ways to do this: 1) Use CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH (so --anyauth, --ntlm, etc. will work) 2) Introduce a new option CURLOPT_SMTPAUTH The problem with option 1 is SMTP authentication mechanisms such as (LOGIN and EXTERNAL) don't currently have a CURLAUTH_ counterpart) however PLAIN could map to CURLAUTH_BASIC, NTLM to CURLAUTH_NTLM and GSSAPI to AUTHAUTH_GSSNEGOTIATE. This essentially means that the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH option becomes more of a CURLOPT_AUTH option and would have to include other mechanism for other protocols (for example: APOP when I get round to adding POP3 authentication). The problem with options 2 is that it is yet another option and again when I add authentication for POP3 there would be yet another option - CURLOPT_POP3AUTH ;-) As a quick test I tried changing line 261 in smtp.c to the following works: if(wordlen == 5 && !memcmp(line, "LOGIN", 5) && conn->data->set.httpauth & CURLAUTH_BASIC) Your thoughts and suggestions would be welcomed. Kind Regards Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
