Alona Rossen wrote: > We observed duplication of user name when sending emails via SMTP protocol with curl 7.21.0.
> AUTH PLAIN YWxvbmEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > AUTH LOGIN XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX You are comparing two different authentication mechanisms: PLAIN and LOGIN For an explanantion why userid is duplicated in the AUTH PLAIN mechanism, see http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4616.txt top of page 3, message =... and the related comments. As an illustration, see paragraphs "Example SMTP AUTH Session using AUTH PLAIN" and "Example SMTP AUTH Session using AUTH LOGIN" on page at http://www.gadgetwiz.com/protocols/smtp-auth-example.html. Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
