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posted at 24. Aug '21

Howto Test SMTP LOGIN/PLAIN By Hand

This is for testing manually LOGIN method. Or PLAIN? The command generates base64 encoded string for authentication. Use telnet to connect to SMTP server and port, then EHLO blah and then LOGIN %string%.

perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("username\0username\0password");'

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