Mail Library: Authentication Support

Gansta93 · Post by **Gansta93** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:59 am

Hello,

I have not found any way to send a mail via SMTP with authentication with the PureBasic native Mail library.

Is it possible to add authentication support on Mail library?

Kukulkan · Post by **Kukulkan** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 7:43 am

Hi,

It is possible to create SMTP with Authentication using the native PB network commands. Just search the forum.

I would like to see SSL authentication. Currently, there is no clean PureBasic way to access SSL SMTP servers like google mail.

Kukulkan

Seymour Clufley · Post by **Seymour Clufley** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 6:50 pm

Yes, SSL is really needed I think.

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:25 pm

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=30560

Kukulkan · Post by **Kukulkan** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 8:16 am

Hi Psychopantha,

I know this forum-thread (I answered four times in this thread). But the result is:

- no SSL/TLS support with PureBasic
- no OS-independent way
- a COM component (250$) is available (WIN only)
- SocketTools for about 99$ (WIN only)

I think there will be a way using OpenSSL, but I don't know how.

Kukulkan

KatSeiko · Post by **KatSeiko** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:49 pm

Actually, a command like SendMailAuth(Adresses$, Title$, Body$, Username$, Password$) is long time overdue...
I mean - we have SMTP Authorization for how long now? 6 years? 7 years? Longer?
It's time for PureBasic to adapt.

USCode · Post by **USCode** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:44 am

Without User/Password authentication support this library is really limited in usability and should probably have not been released without it. I personally haven't had an ISP that allowed me to send emails without a username/password.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:32 am

USCode wrote:Without User/Password authentication support this library is really limited in usability and should probably have not been released without it. I personally haven't had an ISP that allowed me to send emails without a username/password.

That's exactly what I'm thinking, too.

Regards, Little John

Seldon · Post by **Seldon** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:54 am

I agree, very few SMTP servers work without authentication. Anyway, I've been using PureSMTP so far for this, but it doesn't work anymore with 4.30 as most LIBs (problem with StringExtension). BTW, does someone know if we can do something ? Or just waiting for a new release of each user LIB ?

Post by **Kiffi** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:01 am

Seldon wrote:I've been using PureSMTP so far for this, but it doesn't work anymore with 4.30 as most LIBs (problem with StringExtension).

gnozals Libs are ready for PB4.30:
http://freenet-homepage.de/gnozal/#UserLibs

Greetings ... Kiffi

USCode · Post by **USCode** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:35 pm

I've been reviewing the SMTP protocol and to add simple user/password authentication is very easy, I'm not sure why it isn't in the mail library now ... they must have a good reason as they went to all the work to develop the library in the first place. Maybe they're waiting to wrap the OpenSSL library first and give all those security features at once in a future release.

Adding user/password authentication (required by my ISP) appears to be merely a matter of also issuing a AUTH LOGIN, followed by the user and password in Base64. I tried it interactively using Telnet and using PB's Base64 encoder function to generate the Base64 strings and it worked perfectly.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr ... G.65).aspx

Hopefully 4.40 will have the necessary goodies!

Wolf · Post by **Wolf** » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:41 pm

+1

Really needed now!

DoubleDutch · Post by **DoubleDutch** » Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:17 pm

swhite · Post by **swhite** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:09 pm

Hi

I would like to add my vote for adding Authentication Support for smtp.

Thanks,
Simon

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