StGIT mail configuration

StGIT mail configuration

[Aubin LaBrosse]

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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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Re: StGIT mail configuration

[Catalin Marinas]

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

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Catalin