[nflug] SMTP Auth

[Robert Wolfe]

<quote who="Mark Musone">
> This is not MD5 (at least not AUTH PLAIN). It's base-64. (it can't be
> MD5, if it was, the server could not know the username to begin with).
> MD5 cannot be decrypted.
>
>
> Take a look at the following url for examples of SMTP AUTH sessions:
>
> http://www.technoids.org/saslmech.html
>
> As an added test go to: http://www.hcidata.co.uk/base64.htm
> And plug in that AUTH PLAIN data from that example, and convert it from
> base64 to ascii...see what surprise it has!
>
> Mark

As always, thanks for the clarification :)