Using smtplib login with esmtp

[Martin v. Loewis]

Gerhard Häring <gerhard.haering at gmx.de> writes:

> Unfortunately, SMTP AUTH doesn't currently work in Python's smtplib when
> old-style AUTH advertisement (lines starting with auth=) are sent by the
> smtp server. There is a patch of me lying at Sourceforge that will most
> likely make it into Python 2.3. As this problem was asked here twice on
> this mailing list, it would IMO also be wiese to backport the bugfix for
> an upcoming Python 2.2.2. Opinions?

I think you need to convince the Python Business Committee that this
is a bug.

Regards,
Martin