Authentication documentation?

[Beiley]

Is there any explanation anywhere of how to use the authentication in
the 0.79_15 version? I saw from the post below you can use something
like:

$mail{auth} = {user=>'lpartn...@sbcglobal.net', pass=>'password',
method=>'PLAIN', require=>0};

I couldn't get this to work for me, and was wondering if there were any
working examples or documentation for this feature?

Thanks,
Mark

[mi]

There is documentation embedded in the module. (perldoc
Mail::Sendmail).

It is also accessible here:

http://alma.ch/perl/scripts/Sendmail/Sendmail.html#item_$mail{auth}

(including "{auth}" at the end, without spaces)

There is also an example in a previous thread.

How does it not work for you? Have you turned on debugging? What does
it say?

Here is another example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Mail::Sendmail;

my $VERSION = 0.1;

my %mail = (
From => 'us...@example.net',
To => 'use...@smtp.org',
Smtp => 'test.smtp.org',
Auth => {method=>'LOGIN', user=>'user07', password=>"pass07"},
Subject => 'SMTP AUTH test with LOGIN',
'X-Mailer' => "Mail::Sendmail v. $Mail::Sendmail::VERSION",
Message => 'test',
);

$Mail::Sendmail::mailcfg{debug} = 6;

print "Sending...\n";

if (sendmail %mail) {
if ($Mail::Sendmail::error) {
print "content of
\$Mail::Sendmail::error:\n$Mail::Sendmail::error\n";
}
print "OK content of
\$Mail::Sendmail::log:\n$Mail::Sendmail::log\n";
}
else {
print "\n!Error sending mail:\n$Mail::Sendmail::error\n";
}

__END__

This should give a "Relaying denied" error, because it is a test server
which does not actually send mail. But the authentication is succesful
(the server replies "235 2.0.0 OK Authenticated"). Here is the output I
got from this test script:

E:\>perl sendmailtest.pl
Sending...
- trying test.smtp.org
- connected to test.smtp.org
<220 test.smtp.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.3 ready at Sat, 16 Jul 2005
03:29:16 -0700 (PDT); see http://test.smtp.org/
>EHLO x31
<250-test.smtp.org Hello xx.yy.zz [x.x.x.x], pleased to meet you
<250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
<250-PIPELINING
<250-EXPN
<250-VERB
<250-8BITMIME
<250-SIZE
<250-DSN
<250-ETRN
<250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN ANONYMOUS
<250-STARTTLS
<250-DELIVERBY
<250 HELP
AUTH requested
>AUTH LOGIN
<334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
>dXNlcjA3
<334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
>cGFzczA3
<235 2.0.0 OK Authenticated
>MAIL FROM:<us...@example.net>
<250 2.1.0 <us...@example.net>... Sender ok
>RCPT TO:<use...@smtp.org>
<550 5.7.1 <use...@smtp.org>... Relaying denied
Server said: 550 5.7.1 <use...@smtp.org>... Relaying denied

!Error sending mail:
Bad recipient <use...@smtp.org>: 550 5.7.1 <use...@smtp.org>...
Relaying denied
No valid recipient
Server said: 550 5.7.1 <use...@smtp.org>... Relaying denied