Sending mails & authentification

[1/10] from: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 7-Mar-2004 16:43

Hi, I'm running a SMTP server, that requires authentification. So I try to use esend and esmtp to get my mails out. Here is the error I get: Net-log: "250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES" Net-log: "250-8BITMIME" Net-log: "250-SIZE" Net-log: "250-DSN" Net-log: "250-ONEX" Net-log: "250-ETRN" Net-log: "250-XUSR" Net-log: "250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN" Net-log: "250 HELP" Net-log: ["AUTH LOGIN" "334"] Net-log: "334 VXNlcm5hbWU6" Net-log: [(enbase/base port/user 64) "334"] ** User Error: Server error: tcp 501 5.5.4 cannot decode AUTH parameter enbase/base port/user 64 ** Near: smtp-port: open [scheme: 'esmtp] if email? Does anyone has an idea what the problem is? Thanks. Robert

[2/10] from: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 9-Mar-2004 18:49

[3/10] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 9-Mar-2004 20:52

=?utf-8?Q?Robert_M._M=C3=BCnch?= wrote.. apparently on 9-Mar-2004/18:49:22+1:00

>Hi, I'm running a SMTP server, that requires authentification. So I try to >use esend and esmtp to get my mails out. Here is the error I get: > >Does anyone has an idea what the problem is? Thanks. Robert

RebolML message 38636 might have a work round for you. -- Graham Chiu http://www.compkarori.com/cerebrus http://www.compkarori.com/rebolml

[4/10] from: atruter:labyrinth:au at: 10-Mar-2004 10:16

> RebolML message 38636 might have a work round for you.

Hi Graham, I've been using REBOLml for the last couple of days and have found it to be very useful. The install process was particularly well-designed, and the "UpDate!" facility is a god-send for those of us stuck with slow dial-up lines! ;) Thanks for sharing this great tool and providing up-to-date data. Regards, Ashley

[5/10] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 10-Mar-2004 8:01

Ashley Tr=FCter wrote.. apparently on 10-Mar-2004/10:16:07+11:00

>> RebolML message 38636 might have a work round for you. >Hi Graham,

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>dial-up lines! ;) Thanks for sharing this great tool and providing >up-to-date data.

Thanks Ashley for the comments. Good to know I'm not the only one using it :) RebolML owes it's life to the work of others including Konstantin for the DyBase libraries, Romano for the license for ana-list, Ammon for the icon set, Andreas for xml-rpc, Dockimbel for the async-call, Gabriele for helping me with crontab, and others whose code I have used to make it all come together. Geez, sounds like another New Zealand oscar acceptance speech :) -- Graham Chiu http://www.compkarori.com/cerebrus http://www.compkarori.com/rebolml

[6/10] from: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 10-Mar-2004 19:40

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:26:19 +1300, Graham Chiu <[gchiu--compkarori--co--nz]> wrote:

> RebolML message 38636 might have a work round for you.

Hi, I don't have RebolML on my laptop :-( Either a cut&paste or a web-ref would help :-). Robert

[7/10] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 11-Mar-2004 5:55

=?utf-8?Q?Robert_M._M=C3=BCnch?= wrote.. apparently on 10-Mar-2004/19:40:12+1:00

>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:26:19 +1300, Graham Chiu <[gchiu--compkarori--co--nz]> >wrote: > >> RebolML message 38636 might have a work round for you. > >Hi, I don't have RebolML on my laptop :-( Either a cut&paste or a web-ref >would help :-). Robert

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlZTLQ -- Graham Chiu http://www.compkarori.com/cerebrus http://www.compkarori.com/rebolml

[8/10] from: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 18-Mar-2004 9:15

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:44:56 +1300, Graham Chiu <[gchiu--compkarori--co--nz]> wrote:

> http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlZTLQ

Hi, I had a look thru this stuff and tried it further but still no sccuess. Is it really that hard to get SMTP authentification to work? I can't blieve this. I'm quite stuck at the moment if I can't use my SMTP server to send mails... Robert

[9/10] from: Gary:Jones:usap:gov at: 31-Mar-2004 14:14

Re: Sending mails & authentification Hi, Robert, I'm down at the south pole, and we've had satellite problem that has made it very difficult to keep up with the list. I just happened to check the discussion list and noticed your problem. The REBOL interpreter used to be more aggressive in its evaluation of expressions, and my 2001 esend and esmtp took advantage of the evaluation. The newer versions of REBOL over the last couple of years are less aggressive, so last year I change the patch and found an easier way to apply it. This patch is looks for the authentication requests and feeds the username and password, when appropriate: system/schemes/smtp/handler/open-check: [none "220" ["EHLO" system/network/host] "250" "AUTH LOGIN" "334" [port/user] "334" [port/pass] "235"] Then, I would throw the following view script in front of any script that used Exchange email. Note that the script encodes the username and password in base 64, which is required by MS Exchange Server. You may of course replace "MSusername" with the default that you would like presented. Hitting return key advances the field and does final entry. view lo: layout [ text "username" f: field "MSusername" [ system/schemes/smtp/user: copy enbase/base value 64 ] text "password" field hide [ system/schemes/smtp/pass: copy enbase/base value 64 unview/all ] do [focus f] ] Then, you should be able to use the regular send command for email. With luck, this method will still work for MS Exchange (5.5 at least). HOWEVER, it appears as though your smtp server may want a *plain* authentication, meaning no encoding. If so, then you may wish to try: view lo: layout [ text "username" f: field "username" [ system/schemes/smtp/user: copy value ] text "password" field hide [ system/schemes/smtp/pass: copy value unview/all ] do [focus f] ] This version passes the unencoded versions of the username and password. Hope that this helps. --Scott Jones

[10/10] from: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 1-Apr-2004 9:26

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:14:41 +1200, Jones, Scott <[Gary--Jones--usap--gov]> wrote:

> I'm down at the south pole

I'm always amazed where Rebolers are located all over the world...

> The REBOL interpreter used to be more aggressive in its evaluation of > ...

Thanks a lot for this information! I'm going to test it and let you know if it works. If it works you made my day. Robert

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