StGIT mail configuration

Aubin LaBrosse· Feb 13, 2006, 20:47 UTC · lore

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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Catalin Marinas· Feb 13, 2006, 21:45 UTC · re: Aubin LaBrosse · lore

Re: StGIT mail configuration

On 13/02/06, Aubin LaBrosse <aubin@stormboxes.com> wrote:

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> 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

At least with Python 2.4, the authentication type is detected automatically based on server's response to the ehlo command. It supports cram-md5, plain and login (and I think it tries them in this order). If the server responds with something different, the login() command would raise an exception like "No suitable authentication method found.". You could print s.esmtp_features["auth"] in mail.py in StGIT after ehlo.

I haven't read the RFC2554 but you could also try to replace the '@' with '%40'.

> 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.

Probably using tcpdump or ethereal would be the easiest.

-- Catalin