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On Tuesday 16 December 2003 09:03, Daniel Jiseok Song wrote:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=45627&highlight=kmail+authenticati
>on
>
> I think there is a bug in Kmail about authentication. And I’m afraid it’s
> not fixed yet and more.

I have been doing some work on adding SMTP AUTH support into qpsmtpd (a 
qmail-smtpd replacement in perl), and found that kmail from kde-cvs doesn't 
appear to do plain auth properly. It looks like it is sending 
'usernameusernamepassword' in response to the username request, and the 'MAIL 
FROM:' in response to the password!
It does do login properly though.

If you want to check manually, telnet to the smtp server and:
'EHLO whatever.com'
Check the output, it will list the available AUTH methods.
'auth plain' or login, ignore any -md5 methods, I doubt you can do base64 
encoded md5 hashes in your head :)
Input your username and password as requested, then try a
'MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
and see what you get.


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Mike Williams
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