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From
ALAubin LaBrosse <aubin@stormboxes.com>
Date
Feb 13, 2006, 20:47 UTC
Message-ID
<43F0F072.90609@stormboxes.com>
Hello,

I'm using StGIT 0.8.1 on top of the latest release of Cogito - in .git/stgitrc of a local git repo, I have the following part related to my mail configuration:

smtpserver: mail.stormboxes.com:25 smtpuser: username@stormboxes.com smtppassword: myPassword

(actual username and password redacted, of course) - the point is, the username actually is that entire string 'username@stormboxes.com' (no quotes) because the box it's on is a virtual server for many domains and the usernames must contain the domain to which they belong. anyway, i was getting authentication failures, so i hacked up mail.py and set the debug level on the smtp object - i found out that it's trying to auth using CRAM-MD5. And I'm not sure whether the server doesn't support that or not, but i didn't see anything in the python doc that would indicate that i could make the login() method use auth login or auth plain or something else, and it seems like it gets a valid response from the server that tells it that the authentication failed - and i'm not sure why - thunderbird works fine but i can't figure out which auth type it's using. (suppose i could tcpdump it and see) I have, of course, triple checked my auth credentials at this point.

does anyone have any hints or insights, or is this a server configuration problem? any help would be greatly appreciated. Please CC, as I am not subscribed to the git list. 

Thanks,
Aubin LaBrosse

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