Posts Tagged: smtp

Testing SMTP AUTH PLAIN Over TLS

TLS SMTP connection

To prepare to test a TLS connection to an SMTP server we first need to Base64 encode the Login credentials: perl -MMIME::Base64 -e ‘print encode_base64(“\000LoginID\000password”)’ The result of this is: AExvZ2luSUQAcGFzc3dvcmQ= I tried using the base64 linux command but did not get the same result or a result that would work: echo -n “\000LoginID\000password” |… Read more »