[Info-vax] SMTP AUTH ?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote 2011-11-07 15:31:
> HI.
>
> My in-office VMS system have had my ISP's mail server as
> smtp "Alternate Gateway" for some time. Has worked well.
>
> Now, sine last week, this has stopped working. I now get :
>
> ---- Transcript of session follows ----
>
> 550 RCPT TO:<..> Relaying not allowed - please use SMTP AUTH
>
> Now, as far as I can see there is no way to get the smtp
> sender in TCP/Services to use SMTP AUTH, right ?
>
> I have some other options I will investigate (such as using
> the smtp tools in the Python port), but though I'd ask others
> here about it.
>
> I do not know if one need to run full TLS encryption on port
> 465, or if it enough to use the AUTH option on port 25.
>
> Jan-Erik.


Update.
Got a short Python script working, based on the first example on:
http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html#email-examples

Just added a login(user, pw) right before the sendmail() command.

Now I will look att building some generic sendmail tool using
this platform. There is some mime tools in Python also so
adding handling of attachements seems quite doable.

Jan-Erik.