Method login

Lib/smtplib.py:696–762

Log in on an SMTP server that requires authentication. The arguments are: - user: The user name to authenticate with. - password: The password for the authentication. Keyword arguments: - initial_response_ok: Allow sending the RFC 495

(self, user, password, *, initial_response_ok=True)

            return self.password

    def login(self, user, password, *, initial_response_ok=True):
        """Log in on an SMTP server that requires authentication.

        The arguments are:
            - user:         The user name to authenticate with.
            - password:     The password for the authentication.

        Keyword arguments:
            - initial_response_ok: Allow sending the RFC 4954 initial-response
              to the AUTH command, if the authentication methods supports it.

        If there has been no previous EHLO or HELO command this session, this
        method tries ESMTP EHLO first.

        This method will return normally if the authentication was successful.

        This method may raise the following exceptions:

         SMTPHeloError            The server didn't reply properly to
                                  the helo greeting.
         SMTPAuthenticationError  The server didn't accept the username/
                                  password combination.
         SMTPNotSupportedError    The AUTH command is not supported by the
                                  server.
         SMTPException            No suitable authentication method was
                                  found.
        """

        self.ehlo_or_helo_if_needed()
        if not self.has_extn("auth"):
            raise SMTPNotSupportedError(
                "SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server.")

        # Authentication methods the server claims to support
        advertised_authlist = self.esmtp_features["auth"].split()

        # Authentication methods we can handle in our preferred order:
        if _have_cram_md5_support:
            preferred_auths = ['CRAM-MD5', 'PLAIN', 'LOGIN']
        else:
            preferred_auths = ['PLAIN', 'LOGIN']
        # We try the supported authentications in our preferred order, if
        # the server supports them.
        authlist = [auth for auth in preferred_auths
                    if auth in advertised_authlist]
        if not authlist:
            raise SMTPException("No suitable authentication method found.")

        # Some servers advertise authentication methods they don't really
        # support, so if authentication fails, we continue until we've tried
        # all methods.
        self.user, self.password = user, password
        for authmethod in authlist:
            method_name = 'auth_' + authmethod.lower().replace('-', '_')
            try:
                (code, resp) = self.auth(
                    authmethod, getattr(self, method_name),
                    initial_response_ok=initial_response_ok)