Re: Balsa, SMTP-password (fwd)



On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:40:03 Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> Anyone know the answer to this one? (SMTP auth..)
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 17:14:46 +0200
> From: Jens Rathmann <rathmann@uni.de>
> To: hector@scouts-es.org, ijc25@cam.ac.uk, jpaint@gimp.org
> Subject: Balsa, SMTP-password
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Short question concerning Balsa (I have version 0.9.4):
> 
> I want to use a remote SMTP-Server to send my mail, but my mailprovider
> wants me to authenticate via password to use SMTP. Under Netscape Mail a
> box pops up every first time I want to send a mail and I've to enter the
> password for the SMTP server.
> 

ops, rfc 2554, ESTMP AUTH extension. uses SASL (rfc2222), the same used for
IMAP. so, once we get all the imap magic in, this should be a simple hack.
maybe i should look into the mutt archives :)

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