Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#9488 closed (wontfix)

Add setting to force plain SMTP authentication

Reported by: jdemoor Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Mail) Version: 1.0
Severity: Keywords: authentication email smtp
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

A wrongly configured SMTP server that requires authentication can advertise CRAM-MD5 as an accepted authentication method but fail when the client tries to use it. Most email clients would try other methods after the failure, but Python's smtplib just raises SMTPAuthException. This makes sending emails from Django with such servers impossible.

The attached patch adds the EMAIL_FORCE_PLAIN_AUTH setting which, if True, forces the use of the PLAIN method in django.core.mail.SMTPConnection.open().

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plain_auth.diff (2.2 KB ) - added by jdemoor 16 years ago.

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Change History (2)

by jdemoor, 16 years ago

Attachment: plain_auth.diff added

comment:1 by Jacob, 16 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

I don't like adding more code to Django just to work around other broken behavior; we can't be responsible for all the problems in other people's code. In this case, we're talking *both* a misconfigured SMTP server *and* a problem with smtplib.

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