Need email server aid

[Chuck Kuecker]

Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
<snip>
> postfix supports AUTH PLAIN so you can use that in your code to 
> authenticate. You simply want to encode the string 
> 'username\0username\0password' in base64 and feed that to postfix after 
> you by invoking AUTH PLAIN.
>
> EHLO embeddedhostname
> - check response for AUTH PLAIN support
> AUTH PLAIN base64encodeduserpassstring
> - check response
> MAIL FROM: yada at yada.yada
> {rest of smtp session}
>   
Which species of base64 encoding do I want? Wikipedia shows several 
associated with email.

Chuck Kuecker