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[Email Library] - Failed to send AUTH LOGIN command - Encryption Needed - mstojanov - 04-13-2016
Hi.
Today i go some problem with the email library where the server does not support SMTP plain text auth.
PHP Code:
$config['useragent'] = "CodeIgniter";
$config['mailpath'] = "/usr/bin/sendmail"; // or "/usr/sbin/sendmail"
$config['wordwrap'] = TRUE;
$config['mailtype'] = 'html';
$config['charset'] = strtoupper(get_option('smtp_email_charset'));
$config['newline'] = "\r\n";
$config['crlf'] = "\r\n";
$config['protocol'] = 'smtp';
$config['smtp_host'] = 'ssl://domain.com'
$config['smtp_port'] = 465;
$config['smtp_timeout'] = '30';
$config['smtp_user'] = '[email protected]';
$config['smtp_pass'] = 'passwordgoeshere';
This is the current configuration.
When echo the email print debugger the following error occurs:
Failed to send AUTH LOGIN command.Error 535 5.7.8 Error: Authentication failed:encryption needed to use mechanism.
I was able to see in the email library Codeigniter use AUTH LOGIN with unencrypted BASE64 encoding.
To support full web standards, Codeigniter should be able to use CRAM-MD5 or DIGEST-MD5 for SMTP authentication.
Any suggestions how this problem could be solved or possible Codeigniter bug?
Thanks.
RE: [Email Library] - Failed to send AUTH LOGIN command - Encryption Needed - ivantcholakov - 04-13-2016
1. Change/add these settings:
Code:
$config['smtp_host'] = 'domain.com';
$config['smtp_crypto'] = 'ssl';2. I am not capable to mess with the original email library, this area of knowledge is complex. I can see too that the email library uses AUTH LOGIN. If you are sure that this prevents connection, I am able to suggest a workaround.
PHPMailer uses CRAM-MD5 https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/blob/v5.2.14/class.smtp.php#L392
For keeping the original CodeIgniter Email API and not rewriting your code, you can install and try a library that I support: https://github.com/ivantcholakov/codeigniter-phpmailer , It simply replaces the mailer engine.
RE: [Email Library] - Failed to send AUTH LOGIN command - Encryption Needed - mstojanov - 04-14-2016
Hi.
Thanks for the reply.
The first solution dont work.
Will check with the codeigniter-phpmailer library.
But i think workaround should be good.
Regards.
RE: [Email Library] - Failed to send AUTH LOGIN command - Encryption Needed - ivantcholakov - 04-14-2016
Apply 1. and 2.