[Zope] SMTP_AUTH

[J Cameron Cooper]

whysean at softhome.net wrote:

> I want to send email from a Zope Python Product, but my outgoing mail 
> server requires authentication, and the version of python Zope is 
> running on (2.1.3) does not support authentication in its smtplib.py 
> module. I tried applying a patch I found on sourceforge, but it did 
> not seem to work - perhapse it was not a patch for the right version 
> of Python, or perhapse I am not using it correctly.
> Does anyone have step by step instructions for updating Python 2.1.3 
> to allow authenticated SMTP login?

http://www.zope.org/Members/bowerymarc/ESMTPMailHost

seems to be able to do it.

          --jcc

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