Re: [PATCH] git-send-email: Add AUTH LOGIN support

> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
> > The current perl Net::SMTP support will not use AUTH LOGIN
> > when other authentication options are available.
> Even after reading this excuse,...
> > +			if (defined $smtp_auth && $smtp_auth =~ /^login$/i) {
> > +
> > +			    $smtp->datasend("AUTH LOGIN\n");
> > +			    $smtp->response();
> > +			    $smtp->datasend(encode_base64("$smtp_authuser"));
> > +			    $smtp->response();
> > +			    $smtp->datasend(encode_base64("$smtp_authpass"));
> > +			    $smtp->response();
> > +
> > +			} else {
> > +
> > +			    $auth ||= $smtp->auth( $smtp_authuser, $smtp_authpass ) or die $smtp->message;
> > +			}
> ... this makes me feel dirty X-(. Not the desire to force "AUTH LOGIN",
> but the implementation to hand-roll the protocol exchange.
> I'd rather want to know _why_ Net::SMTP does not support it in the first
> place, and what it does for "other authentication options" that are
> available. Does it try them in turn until it finds the one that works? Why
> doesn't it fall back on "AUTH LOGIN" then?
> Specifically, if there is a reason to avoid this plaintext authentication
> method when other options are _available_ (which presumably would be the
> reason why Net::SMTP chooses not to support it), and if there is a reason
> on the user's side to _force_ this method even when people who wrote
> Net::SMTP does not recommend it be used, wouldn't it be natural to expect
> that there should be a way to configure the connection to use it, without
> resorting to coding the protocol exchange by hand line this?